Buying domain

Hi,

I am planning to buy an expired domain. Is there any advantages or disadvantages ?

I am also planning to implement Adsense or YPN code on that.

Please suggest.

 

Expired domains are more expencive
Try another extention .info instead of .com, it will be much cheaper.

Anyway i dont have experience with buying expired domains
Good luck!

 

Other than getting a name you want and maybe a few backlinks that are out there somewhere I can think of no advantage.

The age of the domain will reset when buy it so it will be treated as a new domain.

Make sure the domain has not been banned by Google or Yahoo if you plan to use them on the site. I think you can work around this if you already have a pub code. It does take a little time.

Check the wayback machine to see how it may have been used in the past.

 

How do we know whether the site is not banned by Google or Yahoo

 

I did not know the answer. I went looking and found this info on another site.

What is intersting is the way google displays banned domains versus unregistrered/no-content domains. Here is what is says when you search for "domain.com" if it is banned:
Sorry, no information is available for the URL domain.com
* Find web pages that contain the term "domain.com"

And here is how it looks if not banned:
Sorry, no information is available for the URL domain.com
* If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: domain.com
* Find web pages that contain the term "domain.com"

Complete text of the post can be read at: webmasterworld.com/forum25/2664.htm

I don't know if the info is accurate or not.

If you want to pursue this use this google link search:

google.com/search?hl=en&q=google+%2B%22banned+domains%22

 

Some guru at the warrior forum told me to look at the google toolbar, if it is grayed out the site is either not indexed yet or banned.

Mike

 

That's correct (the banned part)

 

expired domain can be pretty good if there is bl that wont expire after the domain is not transferred . ..

 

I look for forgotten rather than expired. Expired is usually a domain that someone felt was not useful. The forgotten are gems and can give great backlinks. Both the same thing, but there is clearly a difference.

 

forgotten???

What is that?

 

Forgotten as in the domain owner overlooked/forgot to renew it and the domain becoming available for anyone to register.

 

If you buy a expired domain,no one knows if the domain has been blocked by Adsense or YPN.