A domain with pagerank and backlinks can put you way ahead of brand new domains in terms of getting your site indexed quickly and getting traffic.

I have used Registercompass.com in the past and found it to be a good service but I hate paying $37 a month.

I recently tried using Dropday.com and could never see any domain names past the 1st page. There are posts on the net saying Dropday.com is free but to see any results past page 1 you have to pay.

Below is a copy of their fees.

1 Month Only
(No Automatic Renewal) 19.90
Monthly subscription 18.90$
Quarterly subscription 50.70$ (16.90$/month)
Semi-Anual subscription 89.40$ (14.90$/month)
Annual subscription 154.80$ (12.90$/month)

I did some searching and found an excellent FREE alternative called ExpiredDomains.net. This is now where I can find authority domains

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