Aged domain names

[paul79]

how important is it when buying to get an aged domain name thats been around a while? i know if you are going to build an actual website with it its a good idea but if you're just going to sell the domin name straight on does it matter still

 

[LoneDeranger]

Aged domains may includes Backlinks, which gains more traffic. But we do need to assure the traffic is quality-traffic and not junk-traffic. It does increases it's value if it has quality backlinks..

Another aspect of the age parameter - The age of a domain can sometimes give you a hint about the quality of the domain. But sometimes ONLY. Crappy domains were registered in 2000 too.

 

[webmarshals]

Age of the domain might help if the site planned is relevant to the previous sites on the same domain as the backlinks to that domain would bring potential leads/readers to the site.

 

[mad409]

Means nothing to a new start up with sufficient funding to promote their site.

 

[NameFit]

It is nothing more than a selling point for sellers.. name is name, nothing to do with age..

 

[mitok]

Depends who your buyer is. Nothing less, nothing more.

For SEO, age is not as important as many think. More important are backlinks, even non relevant backlinks. EMD is also very important, no matter what others saying.

 

[Name Trader]

@mitok - I don't think you want an old domain which has been blacklisted by google because of their spammy backlinks, where the backlink doesn't respond to requests to remove the backlink, so no way to remove the link. You might as well not buy (or drop) such a domain.

 

[Nick]

how important is it when buying to get an aged domain name thats been around a while?

Matt Cuts, "Not very much at all, in fact."

In my opinion, it's a great selling point to a potential buyer. However, it could also be used as leverage on the other side of the table as the BUYER, to try to justify a lower value. (i.e. the domain isn't aged, so it's worth less.)

 

[Ujjwal Swami]

how important is it when buying to get an aged domain name thats been around a while? i know if you are going to build an actual website with it its a good idea but if you're just going to sell the domin name straight on does it matter still

yah why not ....if the next person who is going to purchase domain name from and want to develop the domain name then he will see the backlinks of domain name and also domain name blacklisting...

 

[Nick]

Just because a domain has age, doesn't mean it has backlinks.
Just because a domain has backlinks, doesn't mean they are good.

A million bad backlinks are not better than 10 good ones.
10 good backlinks are no good without good site content.

 

[paul79]

thanks for the all replies guys - really good info to be going on with thanks. as an aside could i confirm then - if i were to find and register a brand new one/two word .com domain, that it would still be valuable (assuming it's a good name) even though it would have no backlinks etc...?

 

[NameFit]

Personally, I deal with two word meaningful names and I sell to end users (to get the price you want). Imagine you are a business, and you want a name for your business, where you would start - you got the answer. It take time, when I say time, may be 10-15 years but the returns are worth the wait.

Backlinks - you want people to search your name and reach you? Would not rely on this if you want to sell the name. There are thousands or rather millions of active running sites that are hoping that user will reach them through search engine.

I have never showcased backlinks as a selling point for a domain. Do not think end users care or know, only (re)sellers may know and they typically pay 10 times less than what end user will pay.

 

[paul79]

thanks for that - the more info i am picking up from here it seems the one/two word .com is the way to go as you suggest thanks. can i just clarify further re selling to end users as this is what i am struggling with a bit. i understand the theory but not the practice. how do you find them in the first place and then do you just approach them out of the blue direct yourself to sell the name? i have a name now that i think would be good for someone setting up that type of business but have no clue how to get it in front of people who might be interested.

 

[NameFit]

Hi Paul, I have thousands of such names and all are parked, and users contact me through the parking page or whois.

But that works only if you have large portfolio so that sale of only 1 name pays for 200 names on average. So to work for a smaller portfolio - you have to do outreach. You have to find what businesses would be interested in the name, do a search in google on those type of businesses, what type of names they have, and analyze if your name looks better than theirs. You can also search for businesses in yellow pages as well.
I am not expecting lot of responses, but you will get a feel of whether this technique is good or not, may give you some indication of whether name is really any good or not (very little though) and more so, 'how hard this business is'. The returns are in multiples, but that model is different, thousands of names. Average selling rate of good names is 1-3%.

Before investing a lot, try to play around a bit, and make it a goal to sell one name.

 

[paul79]

cheers for that - will give it a go and see how it goes thanks

 

[mitok]

@mitok - I don't think you want an old domain which has been blacklisted by google because of their spammy backlinks, where the backlink doesn't respond to requests to remove the backlink, so no way to remove the link. You might as well not buy (or drop) such a domain.

You can check if it was blacklisted. You can get many natural backlinks which are not from relevant websites and it should not be penalized. For example, you may have a website about dogs, and put it on sale at Namepros and post link to it. It will be natural backlink from non relevant website and there is no chance you will be penalized by Google for that.

Something completely different is when you buy 10000 backlinks on Fiverr and get them in one day. It will most likely get you penalized.

From my experience, any natural backlink helps for SEO, no matter if it comes from relevant website or not. But backlinks from high authority relevant websites are more valuable than the ones from low authority non relevant websites.