Things to Do Before You Buy a Domain Name

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If a domain name has twenty name server (web hosting) changes over the recent past, for example, it might be an indication that the owner is trying to cover something up.

Too bad that experimenting with your own name servers could be held against you. Are search engines known to penalize web sites based on this?

@ez77: It's a factor to consider, not the end-all, be-all deciding factor.

I was going to purchase a five letter domain name for $2,000 a couple of years ago. It was way under priced for a standard english word dot com domain name. Turns out he moved it from place place, and when I asked the seller why he had a terrible answer. I think it might have been a stolen name but I couldn't prove it. In the end, the lack of clarity was enough to convince me not to buy it.

That's all this article is supposed to do: help people figure out domain names and, in this case, figure out if there might be trouble associated with a premium domain name.

Hey, thanks for your exaplanation. Come to think about it, I'm only likely to experiment (DNS etc.) with a personal account nobody is likely to want.

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