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Just a little heads up -- old and expired domains require a very healthy dose of due diligence before purchasing for those of you considering the option. It's not uncommon to see folks snatch up a vanity domain only to have all the toxicity that the previous owner injected into it affect the new owner's business.

Do your homework on what sort of links are pointing at it, why it's being sold, if it's under any sort of search penalty, etc.

It's not impossible to recover an old domain from spammy SEO, but it's not a task taken lightly.

Do you have any resources to do this type of check or know how to go about doing these checks? Thanks in advance.

It would be cool to include a poison-factor in these lists, where the domain available is checked against Google or other spam-tracking sites to gauge its health.

I thought that what PR -1 meant.

Seeing these domains makes me a little sad. There are at least some which are ultimately the end of a failed struggle to survive. How long did John Clarke give it a go with JohnClarkeGuitar.com (2011) before he knew it wouldn't work out? How long did he hold onto the domain still, just because he couldn't let it go.

Hey, I like Clarke, I learned few of his songs, I don't think he is doing so badly: http://www.johnclarkemusic.com/

But yeah, I get your point.

Interesting! Wayback shows no site, just a landing page. A potential dream never pursued?

So, so many bizarre porn-related domains.

Welcome to the Internet!

When asked on a Reddit IAMA what the most unexpected, but common use of the internet was, Tim Berners-Lee replied "Kittens". yeah "Kittens"

ylcos.com - surprised lycos let this slip

AlienDomination.com - a game just waiting to be made

boxes-r-us.com - could also be a game :)

tenbucksclub.com - wheres the guy that imports candy from other countries

2 out of those 4 just got taken :) I so wanted AlienDomination.com

any idea about the source of data for expired domains ?

Too bad someone already snatched softwarecartel.com :P https://www.transip.nl/whois/prm/softwarecartel.com

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It may be useful for someone.

What happens to domains in the mean time when they are expired? What's the policy between registrars?

Does Google still factor domain age into their ranking algorithm?

According to google they wipe pagerank on expiry, but a little trick flippers use is flip the domain quickly before an update.

These are just the ones which expired in the last 24 hours.

There's more behind the login wall.

TheFashionableMale.com

Looks like there was a big fan of Mallrats.

so I can buy some domains by using this for research?

can you just buy these domains through any domain shop? or do you have to buy it through this website?

Sure you can, just got one of them with dnsimple.

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