domain Aged From 1995 to 1997

[Archangel]

What kinda values do you see in these?

MMDPI.com (Regged in 1995)
HomeWeb2000.com (Regged in 1996)
Itsi-Net.com (Regged in 1996)
SkyFloating.com (Regged in 1997)

All receive traffic but not much (100 UV/month at best)
(These are for sale -- PM me offers)

 

[Jaco]

None. Those names are totally nonsensical. People registered crap in 1996 too.
Values in names are because of the keywords, not "age".

Emphasizing "age" is what rookies do who utilize freshdrop but don't understand how to filter for more relevant metrics... They usually reason that since good names were available a long time ago, "old names" must be good so they upstrap the listings for age and buy the oldest garbage they can find. It's a rather amusing failure of logic, but common.

John Ruskin had a great quote about old things without any underlying value whose only virtue was their 'antiquity'... I really wish I could find that.

 

[Archangel]

Thanks for your feedback. To be honest, I don't see too much with the 'age' concept, either, but aged domains seem to sell for a decent amount (not big bucks but decent). I suppose these domains are rather worthless to some and keepsakes for 'collectors.' I suppose I need to find a collector out there :p

But does any SE factor in age anymore? Google USED to but I've been told (by you, among others) that Google doesn't factor in age. I'll sleep on that thought.

None. Those names are totally nonsensical. People registered crap in 1996 too.
Values in names are because of the keywords, not "age".

Emphasizing "age" is what rookies do who utilize freshdrop but don't understand how to filter for more relevant metrics... They usually reason that since good names were available a long time ago, "old names" must be good so they upstrap the listings for age and buy the oldest garbage they can find. It's a rather amusing failure of logic, but common.

John Ruskin had a great quote about old things without any underlying value whose only virtue was their 'antiquity'... I really wish I could find that.

 

[Jaco]

No one knows for sure- there's some talk about the duration of name registration possibly having some impact. Once you clear the sandbox, there seems to be little to no impact. With these names, though, the real question is what do you hope to rank for, since the keywords are pretty much meaningless.

 

[Archangel]

These domain's history helps a bit, I'm thinking (albeit probably not that much). Thy hyphened one needs researched more but the other 3 were developed into real sites at a time and they have a few backlinks. But I suppose I'll need to find a collector for these domains. I was/am considering developing mmdpi.com just to test a Google theory. I might but the other domains can go.

I've had my eye on a 1990 regged domain.I'm not too sure if it'd be worth my time buying now.

No one knows for sure- there's some talk about the duration of name registration possibly having some impact. Once you clear the sandbox, there seems to be little to no impact. With these names, though, the real question is what do you hope to rank for, since the keywords are pretty much meaningless.

 

[the_poet]

I'll suggest to open a NP auction and try to sell them quickly before the renewal date. Whatever you can manage to earn it will be enough!

 

[John Baron]

i notice that names with age will often get a decent sale price at ebay ,
i guess age its something that a lot of newbies find cool and willing to spend some money on it

 

[randomo]

I like aged domains, but for me to spend any money on them, they need to have sensible keywords too. Age alone isn't enough.

 

[MeanerDomainer]

I don't know if this means anything, but on another forum (not domain related) a guy who says that he ows a SEO firm said that he wanted anyone who had an "old website" that they were no longer using to send him a PM. If I remember right, he did not care about the topic or anything else, as long as they were "old". This was at least a couple of years ago, not sure if anything has changed since then.

 

[Jaco]

"Old Websites" are an entirely different thing than "old, useless domains".

Old websites are useful for developing trusted BLs. Old domains- absent viable keywords- are useful for nothing, other than maybe selling on BIDO to people who think that "old" somehow has value in and of itself.

 

[maxeaus]

I agree that age has some value, but it is one of many things IMO.

Some people do seem to rate age above other factors, so they are who you want to sell (these domains) to. I couldn't give any real value on your domains here though.

I guess if someone offered this domain Nordu.net - NORDU - The Nordic Internet highway to research and education networks in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and prov for sale, we could say it was "vintage" and debate the age value more meaningfully!

 

[Jaco]

Whatever value might be assigned to the first domain name ever recorded has nothing to do with sdfnhjwrt0342h.com, registered in 1996.

 

[Archangel]

With these domains, my options are obvious: Develop or sell. DPI is good (yet not great) for printing related, thus I might throw up a script on it, utilize some SEO and see where (if anywhere) it goes. SkyFloating.com was used for para-gliding or whatever that word it (I just got up not long ago. I'm tired lol) and it has XX backlinks so I might do something with it. The other 2 could be sold, I suppose.

I don't believe I'll "rule Google" but experimentation is fun.

 

[GiftedDomains]

no one is really sure about this subject, but i had a customer (Seo) who told me that based on his experience, aged domain names show to google that the domain name is kinda "serious" and not a hit and run type of name, and therefore rank better, etc.

fact is that some domainers buy old names (10 years+), just because of age.
so i appraise each of these names low xx