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[Cosita]

I have a website that I bought last year. The domain name expired (I let it lapse by mistake) and I had to register it again. My question is this: does Google start the aging delay process all over again?

[Jill]

I think this is one of those "try it and see" questions. Since it's really out of your hands, will knowing for sure one way or the other really make a difference to you?

[maleman]

Happenned to one of my sites a couple months back. The owner forgot to renew, site was down a couple weeks. Didn't seem to do a lot of damage in G. Biggest damage was in MSN. Still on the dark side of the moon there.

[prawin]

According to Matt Cutts Blog

Previously, I believe Google estimated the age of a url as the last time that we fetched that page. Given how quickly Google refreshes its main index, that didn’t mean quite as much recently. Now for date-based search, Google estimates url ages by the first date that we saw a url.

If pages are refreshed more quickly, the overall site too can have a lesser Age-delay.


Regards

Prawin

[ScottSalwolke]

[quote name='Cosita' date='Jun 21 2007, 01:55 PM' post='253292']
The domain name expired (I let it lapse by mistake) and I had to register it again.
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Be grateful you were able to get the domain name back. One of my clients accidentally cancelled his domain name. By the time he realized what he had done; his hosting company told him it would cost 80 dollars to get it out of hibernation. He spent a couple days mulling this over and decided to pay. By then, however, the hosting company told him the name was now going to be put up for auction. He ended up having to start over with a .net name.

[ewc21]

I think it depends on how long will it stay available. Maybe in your case it won't matter. Regardless of the outcome, leaving a domain name expire is a no-no unless you don't need it anymore.