A few days ago there was a thread about a site that had a high PR, but with google "www.domain.com" it was linking to another site. (some business-dir.com site). I was looking for some new domain names, I came across dl-i.com (could be anything, but used to be some 3d-rendering company). this domain is about to expire, (see whois), but when I checked it's pagerank, it was PR7 (!) why would you let an pr7 site expire so, go to google, enter www.dl-i.com, and click on the "sites that link to dl-i.com". You'll see it's not showing sites that link to dl-i, but to underconstruction.networksolutions.com. And there are A LOT sites linking to that page (6000+). So this page has a high PR, for now. I you would register this domain (when it expires), you'll have a PR7 domain, until the next toolbar update. Just want to share my findings with you, and I think this solves the PR3 problem that was in the other thread a few days ago. But if you're interested: dl-i.com: Status: PENDINGDELETE Updated Date: 14-may-2005 Creation Date: 08-mar-1999 Expiration Date: 08-mar-2005 go for it be pr7 for a while - and link to me!
Google apparently have an expired domain name filter, so that once a domain name expires, the links towards it are voided. I've seen a couple of people hit by this - and where I know someone got by it with a purchase before expiration, the site was effectively dead on Google within 4 months.
Guess Google read your post earlier today. When I go to site 'Page Cannot Be Displayed' @ PR0 and link:www.dl-i.com net 0 pages found. Man they're fast