How the Greatest Internet Visionary of our Times Makes Over 6-Figures A DAY
Please note: names were changed to protect the innocent! But you’ll see clearly how this whole idea works.
A few years ago, an Internet visionary named Yun Ye (he also goes under the alias Ultsearch) stumbled across the most ingenious traffic and profit generation idea in the history of the Internet age and quietly went on to make millions. To this day, he holds a monopoly on the biggest underground traffic industry on the web. In fact, you’ve likely helped him out by clicking on an ad, and not known it.
So how did he single-handedly plunder the spoils of the internet? He connected two simple dots: he figured out that expired domains + link popularity = expired traffic. Traffic looking for someplace to go…
He hides behind his flickering computer screen (actually, he has software that does this), waiting patiently until the time is right. Every waking minute, his software compiles information about domain names: how popular it is, how much traffic it receives, what market segment it serves, and most importantly, when that domain name will expire.
The minute it does, he grabs it up. In an instant, your domain, your hard work, your time, the traffic you’ve built up is his. Who is this elusive swashbuckling buccaneer of the Internet? He’s known as Yun Ye and he’s coming to a domain name near you…
Yun Ye is an icon. A legend in his own right. His concept is simple: plunder the net, one site at a time. So far, it’s working to the tune of six-figures per day!
Yun Ye operates a PPC business in Hong Kong. He owns over 50,000+ domain names, all PPC. It seems he started buying up domains in the late ’90s. In recent years, with the explosion of web traffic in general, he’s accelerated his acquisitions.
If you are not familiar with PPC, have a quick read, then come back here!
Here’s an example of Yun Ye’s methods: ConservativeBuys.com is a very popular website selling one of the largest collections of conservative and libertarian political t-shirts on the web. A few years ago, Dennis, owner of ConservativeBuys.com, neglectfully forgot to renew his domain name since he never received the emails his domain registrar sent him warning him expiration time was nigh.
The minute it expired, his domain name was purchased by Yun Ye. (An expired domain is simply a domain which becomes available for reregistration by others because the previous owner failed to pay the yearly renewal fee)
Although the domain name had changed hands, the site was still heavily trafficked, due in large part to an established network of link partners and high search engine rankings that Dennis had worked hard to acquire over the years the site was runing… This means ConservativeBuys.com was still receiving thousands of visitors a day, even though his website was no longer active!
Yun Ye immediately converted the thriving conservative bumper sticker site into a related PPC link directory site in order to make money off the established traffic which was still being sent over to the domain name.
NOTE: Many well-known companies like PriceWaterhouseCoopers - who lost pwc.com to Yun Ye - have sued ultsearch.com over this practice and lost, because buying an expired domain name is a “legitimate business” under WIPO arbitration rules.
Each click from each visitor from each search was putting money in Yun Ye’s pockets. With this one site alone, Yun Ye was making a few hundred dollars a day from visitors’ clicks. Fortunately, Dennis was able to buy back his site from Yun Ye for the modest fee of $400. Modest, since Ult very rarely returns an expired website to its previous owner.
This brief account outlines, in its very essence, Yun Ye’s strategy:
1. Locate expiring websites which have been developed and are still receiving traffic from search engines and other sites that still link to it.
2. When the domain name expires, buy them. Who would let a good domain name expire?
- Absentminded website owners who simply neglected to renew their domain names
- Webmasters who got tied up in other ventures or interests
- Webmasters who discontinued a site due to time constraints
- Webmasters who ran out of money to continue to operate
3. Make money off the stream of traffic still being sent to the site by setting up either a PPC website, or a site selling a targeted and related affiliate product. You earn revenue off each click. All Yun Ye has to do is make about $0.02 a day off a name to make a profit for the year. With the average bid term being $0.30/click, you can see how this is like taking candy from a baby.
Yun Ye’s strategy is beautiful. What is mind-boggling is that only a relative handful of individuals are following his lead! The expired traffic industry has been cloaked with secrecy for the longest time. Those in the know would never reveal to an outsider the details. But some people are making very big money by monetizing the traffic from expired domain names.
If you’d like to be one of them, check out the “How-To” courses offered in the top right column. The science of Domain Name Investing is straightforward and, once you know the lingo, very logical. That part is the easy part. The art of the deal is what separates the wheat from the chaff and will lead you to success in Domain Name Investing. Jump in - you have nothing to lose and everything to gain!
