DROPPED Domain...What it actually is???

Hi Respected Dpers,

I bought a few domains a few months back. I bought them directly from name.com and some from godaddy and dreamhost too. But now when i came to know how worthless dropped domains are considered over here, i just tried to check the domains with me but was shocked when i saw almost domains i bought are with 1 drop or 2. What DROPPED domain actually is? So Isn't it safer to register domains directly from these companies. Or these domains are not what they call DROPPED domain although they show 1 drop or 2 in register while checking via WhoIS. I'm very confused. Is there anybody to help me out of this puzzling debate in my mind. please lemme know. Thanks in advance!

 

dropped domains are expired domains and you grab them usually for PR

 

www.theholdempoker.com

well, I bought it with everything n/a and zero from name.com paying $8.25 as far as i remember. I didn't purchase it for PR and all that but it still has 1 drop i guess. what is your opinion regarding this?

 

it doesn't look to be dropped, why you're concerning about that?

 

If you don't mind can u plz tell how to figure out whether or not a domain name is dropped? i think i came to know the wrong way of recognizing it and maybe that is why i'm finding my almost domains as dropped. what I did is, i have SEO quake installed at my end so simply clicked on WhoIS and checked the Registrar history where i found 2 Registrars with 1 drop at theholdempoker.com. Is this the wrong way? If yes, plz lemme know how? Thanks in advance!

 

Dropped domains aren't worthless. Personally I prefer an aged domain (you don't get the google sandbox).

The reason that some don't like dropped domains is that they aren't good for selling links on. Normally a dropped domain will loose it's PR quickly (making any links you sold on them worthless).

 

there are many ways
I checked on archive.org if there's any cached copy of this domain in the past!

 

What is a dropped domain? Simply put a dropped domain is a domain name that was previously registered but for one reason or anther was not renewed by the domain owner. The general public is now allow to register the domain name. The reason could be that the owner forgot to renew the domain name or the previous domain owner did not want to renew the domain. In some cases the domain could have a PR (Page Rank) and this PR stays with the domain name even after it expires. So the new owner's site will have the same PR automatically.

If you buy a domain name you should always do a check to see if the domain is a dropped domain. Why, is this important you ask? If the domain name was previously registered and the owner did not want to renew it he could have had a good reason for not wanting to renew it. Worst case, the reason might be that he used the domain to spam the search engines beyond repair and decided to get a new domain name. If this is the case, you don't want this banned domain. If the domain has been banned, the search engines will not list your website. If they do list your website you'll never rank well for any search terms and will receive very little website traffic if any. You will also run into problems with email from your domain being blocked because the domain is a known as a "spammers domain".

Before you buy a domain, take a few minutes to check out the Internet Archives' Wayback Machine at http://www.archive.org. Type in your domain name and see what comes up. If you see spammy things (lots of ads, inappropriate content, etc.) this will give you an indication that the site might have been used for spam. The Wayback Machine also tells you the age of the domain.

If you find that the domain has not been banned you still might not be OK using a dropped domain name. Once someone buys a domain and they point it to a parked page the search engines will put it in the search engine supplemental index. If can take a while to get out of the supplemental index and back into the regular search engine listings. Another problem is that Webmasters that have previously linked to that domain may remove those links after discovering the url points to a parked page.

In conclusion, it's a lot safer to buy new domains. Domains that have not been registered, that you thought up yourself. I know it's not easy but it's better in the long run. You don't have to worry about any of the problems listed above.

If you do find the perfect domain name and it just happens to be a dropped domain you should just be careful and know what you are getting into. If you do find that the domain has been dropped and banned you should contact each individual search engine to request an inclusion into the search engine index. Communicate to the search engine that you recently purchased the domain and that the website is in compliance with their search engines guidelines. Good luck with domain hunting.

Gina Hover

 

Well, i didn't get my answer yet. I know about archive.org but my concern is when checking domains via WhoIS. For the fresh domain i registered in name.com, they shows something like this:

Registrar History: 2 registrars with 1 drop.
NS History: 5 changes on 4 unique name servers over 5 years.
IP History: 7 changes on 6 unique name servers over 5 years.
Whois History: 28 records have been archived since 2005-10-09 .
Reverse IP:632 other sites hosted on this server.

All i want to know is why it is showing 1 drop in Registrar history? That's all. Hope I will get the precise answer now.

 

well that must be weird if it is freshly registered domain, but already shows a drop

 

dropped domain are expired domain whose owner failed or don't want to renew this domain.
and if you check for a domain from any registrar if the domain is free they show them available for registration.
if you want a fresh domain need to some search about that domain before registration.

your domain whois history show 2 registrars with 1 drop means your domain registered 2 times where first time its dropped by first owner.
and other history show this domain's previous record history.

 

Oh! So am I supposed to do a bit of homework and researching even before registering a fresh domain from a domain company? Well, I never thought I would end up getting a dropped domain from a reputed company like name.com. Anyway, Thanks for suggestion!

 

As more and more domains get purchased it will be increasingly hard to be the first person to register a domain. Eventually we'll all just be reusing domain names. I wouldn't loose sleep over your name being previously dropped.

 

Well, I'm pretty concerned just because I'm into link sales these days and came to know that it's really hard to sell links with dropped domain. I can't even sent PMs to anybody after i realize that I don't even meet one of the criteria they often mention ( No Dropped Domain PLZ). Actually, I'm not aware of these things as I'm a newbie here. I was into content creation since last 18 months or so but finally made up my mind to do something new yet interesting so thought of giving a try to link sales. let's see how far it goes.