With the recent decline of the world economy many changes have come about with regards to business on the internet. One of these things is an upswing in the amount of expired domain names that are available to be re-registered to a new owner, once they have been determined to be expired. 

There are many reasons why a person would establish a domain name and also create a website, promote it and then have to let it go. Partnership disagreements, declining business, business refocusing in another direction and the list goes on and on. With regards to these expired domain names, one man’s trash is truly another man’s treasure, because what may have seemed like small potatoes to a well-established and highly successful internet entrepreneur might in fact turn out to be a small treasure to someone like yourself. 

Many of these domain names have websites that have been heavily promoted and have substantial traffic that you can redirect to other internet ventures that you currently have going. For the affiliate marketer traffic means money, because most have an established formula that dictates that a certain percentage of visitors are going to end up being buyers. 

Therefore, more visitors directly translate into more revenue. There are websites that cater exclusively to the person who is interested in acquiring expired domain names. It is highly recommended that you visit them to learn more about the topic before you run right out and start buying up random expired domain names. 

As a general rule, the majority of passive revenue generated by an acquired domain name would come from advertising in the form of advertising clicks. For this reason, you will want to give close consideration to the domain’s ratings in the top search engines and also the number of links that it has. 

Also, you may want to consider building a website that is based on the domain name and while this can seem labour intensive, with practice and the proper information, it is well within the grasp of even the novice entrepreneur on the net. 

Of course, if you have a website you are then going to have to host it but don't let that stop you, because there are many cheap website hosting services on the net and in fact there are even free hosting services but they do have some catches that you must make yourself aware of. 

Still another source of revenue that can be generated from a website is by the selling of links to third party websites, but your website must be of a high enough calibre to do this. The sooner you get started having your website designed and created, the sooner you can begin to see results come to fruition. 

The world economy is expected to make a turnaround just as it always has and for you to be able to maximize on it when it happens you must have your website up and going and have done some promotional work on it. Expired domain names are a great way to get a leg up with regards to your internet venture.