Losing Page Rank if Changing Domain Name?

Hi,

Simple question! Do you lose your link juice by changing your domain name?
And is there a simple way to do this without PR?

Thanks


Note: Current domain name seems to be penalized or filtered.

 

Pagerank is associated with a specific domain. If you 301 redirect the domain to a new domain, the new domain will acquire the pagerank.

 

Thanks dcristo. That's a relief.

 

I wouldn't redirect a penalized domain though.

 

What are the drawbacks/downside?

 

IF redirect will get traffic but for getting direct PR I am doubted..Now Google become very clever and regularly crawling and twice in a month updating also some changes u can see in google result page like BL from forums showing total post and authors etc

 

Google can see your post in forums, even with no signature link?

 

I agree with others, as much as traffic on the existing domain can help, I would avoid doing a 301. Maybe a javascript / meta refresh would be better. (I am not sure if googlebot parses this as well).