Why do domains expire? The first reason usually thought of is that someone forgot to renew the domain. While that is entirely possible, it is not very often the case. Responsible registrars will send an email advising of an approaching expiration. When the expiration date passes the domain name registrar will change the nameservers and if the domain is being used for an actual website, the website will disappear from the web. That could be a big alarm if it is a busy site. The domain owner still can renew the domain and if the owner does not wait too long there will not be a penalty for late renewal. Another possibility is that the person who was in charge of the company's domain portfolio was on vacation or is just gone and whomever was supposed to take care of the portfolio did not do a very good job. Maybe they are doing two jobs now until there is a replacement for the missing employee. If a domain was part of a package deal and one price was paid for domain and hosting combined, when the hosting is allowed to expire the domain will expire also. Stay away from one payment for everything. A domain should be able to be renewed whenever you want or need to renew it.

   Most expired domain names have been knowingly allowed to expire. There are only so many hours in the day and sometimes some of the best domain names on a domain list become casualties and are allowed to expire when changes in the direction and focus of a business force decisions regarding costs versus increasingly remote benefits of renewing domains unrelated to present and projected needs.

   Unlike expired milk, the fact that a domain is expired can be a good thing. Generally, the longer a domain has existed, more value exists. The domain is said to be 'aged', and the domain may be mentioned on other sites, indexed in search engines, and may even have residual traffic. When a domain calls up an impression an expectation an idea, that is the sort of domain we look for. Expired domain names which contain keywords, that are search terms which might be used to locate a site about the subject a domain suggests, are the sort of domains we look for. We have searched so you don't have to, and think of the domains in our portfolio as a resource not to be held hostage with high prices.

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