When people neglect to or decide not to renew their domain registrations, others will have a chance to get those domains. The list of expiring domains is of course very long, so I created a little script to help me find just the best ones. I used some dictionaries to match against, and for a while I also had some traffic data. I made a UI around this tool and posted it on the web. People seemed to like it and it got to the top pages of Digg, Reddit and del.icio.us. This was in December 2006. Just a few days after the initial burst of traffic, it was down to 100 visit per day, and is currently at 50 visits per day, making an incredible $5/month from AdSense.
I wanted to ask you smart devs whether there is anything you can think of that would make the tool more sticky, to turn the flatlined traffic into a growing trend? I find myself keeping the script somewhat operational, in hopes I would come up with something, but it's now been two years already and my mind is blank.
http://expired-domain.bemmu.com/