11 replies to this topic

[rohgan03]

Hey All,

Been reading up on the aging/sandbox thing. Just read scotties article also.

I am planning a new site right now and am wondering if it helps to buy an existing domain to overcome again effect? If so, which are the sites from where I can buy domains for less than $500 ?

[Shane]

If your business plan requires ranking well in Google within 9 months, you'll absolutely need an old URL (provided the sandbox remains an issue). Not sure where you could go shopping for old domains for sale, though

[gerardism]

Why don't you check out domain names that are expiring and will become available soon? this might be a good way to find something that will be cost effective.

[torka]

Just be sure to check out the provenance of any domain before you buy it. It's a pretty common practice among spammers to buy "throwaway" domains that they toss as soon as they've become worthless. You don't want to shell out good money for a domain that's been blacklisted all over creation.

--Torka

[K.S. Katz]

A good way to check out the history of the domain is use:

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php (It's a free tool!)

Wayback Machine gives you a snap shot of the site over a period of time. It will give you an idea of what's been on the site before.

If you're going to spend some cash on a domain, you might alway have a domain appraisal done on the site to see what it's worth. Sometimes appraisers can bring issues to light that you might not have thought of at first glance.

[OldWelshGuy]

Suddenly all that money spent on my domains in the past is good news lol. I put holder pages on my server for them all so that the spiders are used to indexing them lol

[Scottie]

Just buying a previously owned domain isn't going to do you any good if there was never a site attached to that domain in Google... so be wary. I have a stock of domains that show registration dates of years ago but I've never actually used them- so they have no history in Google.

[rohgan03]

So isnt there anyone in the business of selling domains with google history ?

[OldWelshGuy]

This is why I took all my domains and placed them on the server with a little bit of content about the likely use.

[leadegroot]

I don't believe this is going to work - Google has become a domain registrar recently specifically to have access to registration data.
This means when the owner changes they are going to reset the domain's ranking.

Edited by leadegroot, 10 February 2005 - 06:29 PM.

[tempy]

I don't believe this is going to work - Google has become a domain registrar recently specifically to have access to registration data.
This means when the owner changes they are going to reset the domain's ranking.

Have they really said that? Seems a bit extreme. If I decide to buy out toptowelsoftheworld.com and continue to sell towels from that domain, what logic is there in 'resetting' a domain's ranking? What does 'resetting' refer to BTW?

[Randy]

They haven't flat out said that's what they're going to be doing Tempy. Then again I wouldn't expect them to, especially not as secretive as Google is.

On the other hand, in announcing that they had spent the time and money to become a registrar they did say that they were not intending to offer domain registration services now or in the future. It's not part of their plan to ever offer registration at this point.

So the question begs as to why anybody would go through the effort of becomin an accredited Registrar if they're not going to offer domain registration. Other than be able to get their hands on the non-public information that we mere mortals can't see that is.