Hello. I noticed an deleting domain a couple of weeks ago, which was 7 years old, so I went back this week, it was now available, nobody else snapped it up, so I did. It was originally on godaddy, but I wanted it along with my other domains on 123-reg registrar. So, I bought the domain through 123-reg. I checked the whois data and it now says the domain is only 4 days old, as do all 'domain age checker' tools. How can a domain be '4' days old if there are links to such domain in the cache of sites that Google last crawled weeks ago? Will the domain age return to 7 years X months again, or was that the 'domain age' while on godaddy? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks
domain age does get set to zero again as soon as the domain has no owner anymore, so you registered it "new" and that's what it is now, a new domain that once before had an old owner - that's how it works, if it has the links still be happy and enjoy the free traffic built by the former owner though
When a domain name is deleted, its previous records would be removed from the registrar's database and would appear to be at par with a never-been-registered domain name. If you have bought over the domain name BEFORE it is deleted then the domain name age would be retained. If the domain name had PR ranking, it would inevitably be changed the next time Google updates it. Well, the only time in which the domain name age would return to 7 years would be 7 years from now.
That is because the domain was not captured when it was still live that is 365 days + another 30 days, after that the domain registration data is all deleted from the registrars and is available in open market as a fresh domain without any age The caches with search engines as you know remain with them for sometime, but that too will drop as they might not have found the site for the few days that was deleted by the registrars Its age is new and not old Whenever you want to buy old domains, get it before it is dropped, it may cost few bucks more, but it is worth it, i too have a 9 year old domain just bought 2 months back, but it didnt drop and its age is still shown as 9 years, i bought it from godaddy before it was dropped
There are some cases where you can preserve the age of the domain for example if you buy an expiring domain name at tdnam, the age is not changed. Similarly, some of the registrars have partnership with snapnames, and so if you buy a expiring name at snapnames which is registered at one of these partner registrar, you will get the name without age being reset.
Because the domain dropped so the age was cancelled. You registered it 4 days ago so now it's only 4 days old.
Ah, now I get it. Thank you to everybody who posted a response - much appreciated. Admittedly I thought 'screw it, I'll just wait another month til it deletes and get it much cheaper'....oops. Thanks anyway.