Every domain here shows the links that still send visitors: Domain Rating, backlinks, referring domains, age and the asking price, in the open. The Ahrefs report you unlock with the name includes the organic traffic estimate, and where a name has lost its traffic, the report says so instead of the listing pretending otherwise.
Membership $24.50/mo billed yearly, or $49/mo. One listing unlocked free when you open an account.
| Domain | DR | Backlinks | Ref. domains | Age | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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cus*****nce.io
Technology
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51 | 214 | 164 | 12 years | $1,800 |
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por*****hub.io
Premium SEO domain
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42 | 626 | 228 | 7 years | $2,400 |
The short answer
An expired domain with traffic is a dropped name whose links and rankings still send visitors after the old site went dark. Most of that traffic fades within weeks of the drop, so the part worth paying for is the referring domains that keep sending it. Buy on the backlink report, treat the traffic estimate as a bonus, and keep the new site on the old topic.
SEODomain lists a small number of hand-checked expired domains at a time, each with its DR, backlinks, referring domains, first registration year and asking price public, and the full Ahrefs report, traffic estimate included, attached to the name. Membership costs $24.50 a month billed yearly and reveals the names, the reports and a direct purchase link.
A domain does not have traffic. A site has traffic, and when the site goes offline the visitors go with it. What survives the drop is the reason people still type or click the name: links on other sites that were never removed, bookmarks, a brand that people remember, and search rankings that take a while to fade because Google keeps serving the old pages until it confirms they are gone.
That is why a traffic estimate on a dropped domain is the least reliable number on the listing. Tools estimate visits from keyword rankings, and rankings on a dead site are a snapshot that is already out of date. Two things hold their value: the referring domains, which keep sending referral visits and keep passing authority, and the archive history, which tells you what the site was about and whether the audience it had is one you can serve.
So the listings on this page show the durable numbers up front and put the traffic estimate where it belongs, inside the Ahrefs report you unlock with the name. Where a domain still records organic traffic months after dropping, the report shows it. Where it does not, no monthly visitor figure is invented to make the listing look better.
Visitors clicking links on other sites. Lasts as long as the links do, which is years.
Old rankings. Fades within weeks of the drop unless the new site restores the pages.
Bookmarks and typed visits. Small, but the most loyal audience an old name has.
Crawlers and scrapers hitting old URLs. Shows up in logs, never converts, and inflates cheap traffic claims.
Three uses, in the order that keeps the traffic rather than burning it.
Restore the pages people still link to, at the old URLs where you can, and publish new content in the same subject. This keeps the referral visitors, gives the old rankings something to land on, and stays clear of Google's expired domain abuse policy.
Works when the topics match page for page. Redirect the old guide about X to your guide about X, not everything to your homepage. A blanket redirect from an unrelated name is the pattern that passes least value and draws the most scrutiny.
If the name reads like a brand and the history is clean, the residual visitors are your first audience and the links are your first authority. Here the archive history matters more than the traffic figure, because you are inheriting a reputation.
DR, backlinks, referring domains, first registration year and the asking price are public on every listing. Only the name is masked.
Membership reveals the full name, the complete Ahrefs report with its organic traffic estimate, and the direct purchase link. Opening an account unlocks one listing free so you can check the numbers first.
The domain itself is bought separately, at the price shown, from the registrar or broker holding it. Members can also send an offer instead of paying the asking price.
Every route sells you a traffic number. The difference is who checked whether it is real, and what you pay in time to find out.
| Option | What it costs | Where the traffic figure comes from | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEODomain | $24.50/mo billed yearly, or $49/mo. The domain is paid separately at the listed price. | The Ahrefs report attached to the listing, after we have read the history. No visitor number on the open listing that the report does not back. | Buyers who want a short checked shortlist and the report handed over, not a database to filter. |
| DomCop | Paid database subscription. You still buy the domain at the source. | Semrush traffic metrics as a filter across millions of dropping names. You verify each one. | People who enjoy filtering and can vet dozens of candidates a week. |
| GoDaddy Auctions | Small yearly membership, then you bid. | A traffic column supplied by the auction, unverified. Bidders set the price. | Volume buyers who are comfortable bidding, losing and checking afterwards. |
| Odys Global | No membership. Domains listed from roughly $300 upward. | Their vetting plus the metrics on the listing. Over a thousand names. | Buyers who want the largest curated selection at a fixed marketplace price. |
| ExpiredDomains.net | Free account. | Nothing beyond basic metrics. It is a raw drop list. | The cheapest route, if your own time is free. |
Competitor prices change. Figures here were checked in September 2026. See the full Odys Global alternative comparison and the SpamZilla alternative breakdown.
They are worth it when the traffic comes from links and search rankings that survive the drop, and when the old topic is close to what you will build. Most expired domains lose the bulk of their visitors within weeks of the old site going dark, so pay for the referring domains that still exist, and treat any residual traffic as a bonus rather than the reason to buy.
Usually a small fraction of what the old site had. Rankings fade once the pages return errors, and what remains is referral traffic from links that are still live plus a little direct and bookmark traffic. A domain that still shows organic traffic in Ahrefs months after dropping is the exception, and the report attached to each listing shows it when it exists.
Read the referring domains and the anchor text, not the traffic estimate. Traffic tools estimate visits from keyword rankings, and those estimates can be inflated by a burst of spam pages or by rankings in a country you do not sell to. Real traffic comes from real sites linking to real pages, which is exactly what the Ahrefs report on every listing here lets you check.
Auctions such as GoDaddy and NameJet, finder databases such as DomCop and SpamZilla, and curated marketplaces such as Odys Global or SEODomain. Auctions and databases make you do the checking. A curated marketplace has already read the history and lists the domain with its metrics and a fixed asking price, which is what this page shows.
You can, and it works when the old topic matches yours page for page. A redirect from an unrelated domain bought purely for its links is the pattern Google names in its expired domain abuse policy, and it tends to pass little value anyway. Map old URLs to their closest new equivalents and keep the topic consistent.
A checked expired domain with real referring domains and a clean history commonly runs four figures on a curated marketplace, and the price on each listing here is the asking price rather than a starting bid. Names that still hold search rankings cost more than names with links alone, because the buyer is paying for both.
Five things: how many separate sites link to it, whether those sites are real publications, what the anchor text says, what the site looked like on archive.org for its whole life, and whether the old topic is close to yours. Every one of those is in the report that comes with a listing here. The traffic estimate is the last thing to look at, not the first.
Open an account and you can reveal one listing, traffic report included, and send one offer without paying. If the numbers are what you expected, membership is $24.50 a month billed yearly.
Also worth reading: buy expired domains with backlinks, buy high DA domains, buy aged domains, where to buy expired domains and how the marketplace works.