The search for the perfect domain name can be daunting task, especially if you use a site such as DomainSearch.com to check for domain name availability. For example, let’s say you’d like to create a site on dogs. Hmm, let’s go with dogs.com. Go head over to DomainSearch.com and type that in right now. I’ll wait…
Not available. Ok, try dogcity.com. I’ll wait…
Not available either. Well how about dogcentral.com? I’ll wait…
Not available either, huh? Ok well try ilovedogs.com. I’ll wait…
Get the picture? There’s a lot of waiting involved when trying to …

So that domain you registered a few years ago just doesn’t seem that cool anymore and you no longer want to pay the renewal fee for it. Well don’t just let it expire; someone else may want to pay you for it! That’s right, there’s hundreds of thousands of people out there that buy domains, and yours may be of interest to one of them! As explained in my previous article, Buying Registered Domain Names, people want to buy domains because:

The domain may already have pre-existing traffic. This means that …

Say you come across a website you really enjoy, and would love to get in touch with the author to let him or her know that. But, you can’t find the owner’s contact details anywhere on the site. In this case, you can try checking the WHOIS record for that website. WHOIS is a database of records that contains information about the owner(s) of every website. Some reasons to check a WHOIS record on a website is to find out when a domain will expire or what registrar the domain …