I bought an expired domain a few months ago. It was a domain with a decent # of inbound links, but more importantly, I wanted the domain name. I thought it had been abandonded. So I won the domain on snapnames.com in an auction, then spent a month developing it. I launched a site with about 35 pages of static content and about 120 pages of discussion forum content. Shortly thereafter, about a month after I bought the domain, the previous owner calls me and tells me he has a trademark on the domain name, and will sue me if I don't transfer the domain within 72 hours. It turns out the guy had owned the domain/site for 6 years, I didn't want to be a prick, so I just accepted the transfer. He paid me the same amount I bought the domain for. So the legal aspect is over, I just want to get make sure this site isn't viewed as dup content. Lots of the pages I put up when I had control of the domain had already been indexed by Y, G, and MSN. I've written to the guy, asking if he'd be willing to make redirects on the URLs I created, but haven't heard back in a few weeks. (they don't overlap with his urls - which aren't even SE friendly, I even offered to help him fix his fugly urls). Now I have my content on a new domain, on the same hosting acct (same IP). It doesn't seem to be getting indexed so far, although there aren't a lot of links pointing to it yet. I've changed some info in the index, but a lot of the info on the static pages is the same. Will I need to change it to get indexed? edit - I know that I'm stupid for not doing a trademark search, no need to comment on that undeniable fact. However, if it will help people, my advice is this - Do A Trademark Search on Domains Before Buying Them!
I don't think you will have much to worry about it. The search engines will fairly quickly deindex the articles that you had added and when they start the new site their will not be duplicate content. What you could try doing to see if Google still has the pages indexed do a site:www. yoursite. com "keyword specific to your site" and see if the page/pages are still in Google. Perhaps others will know a faster search. As for getting indexed I suspect you will just need a link to the site and you will have no problem. If you are worried you could wait a little while and check to see if Google has deindexed the old pages before starting your link building. Just my two cents. I am sure others will have some.
IMSLP, the largest public domain music library on the Internet, has just suffered a damaging attack on the site’s infrastructure. In a wrongful action over a single 90 year-old classical piece by Rachmaninoff, the UK’s Music Publishers Association convinced registrar GoDaddy to seize IMSLP’s domain name, which took the site completely offline.
the new site will get penalized in case of google gets your site as a duplicate content victim. because that site contains the original content no matter who has written it. That website got indexed first so that will be considered as a pioneer though u were the writer but google is not concerned with writer but about the site domain name and everything. so you better forget about it and get some new n fresh content on ur new website
I don't think duplicate content is an issue as long as the old site goes down for good that had your content on it.
@kind of darkeness is right. your content could be treat as duplicate content by google. So, change it..