Over the last few years, I’ve found myself accumulating domains from past clients for various reasons. In some cases, it’s domains the customer wanted, but changed their mind on after a month or customers that stopped paying their bill after a year or before the year ends.
Whatever the reason, I wind up paying for a domain I have no use for.
Now what to do with them.
Normally it falls into 4 categories.
- Let it expire without further thought.
- Sell it off.
- Give it away.
- Pull a Prank.
but those options are not really all that helpful.
Letting is expire is clearly the easiest way to not piss off anyone, but the domain could easily pass into the care of domain squatters and become useless to everyone. Selling it off is a very viable option if the party is interested in buying it but if the client went under, then you can wind up without an interested party. Giving it away is very much the polite thing to do in some cases, but again, what if you can’t? and pulling a prank is just childish.
If you want to pull a prank on a deadbeat client, why not simply forward their site to your own site, like that page you have on payment options 
but there is one option not considered by most people.
Selling it to someone else. See, the internet allows millions of people to interface and connect. It also allows businesses to find each other and you, the domain holder to find companies with similar names to the domain you need to sell.
Sure, you won’t always find your former client’s domain a new owner, but it’s a better option then the rest, I feel.
