Better Google ranking for serious users with more than 1-year registration?

[competentdomains]

A few minutes ago I registered an .info-domain at name.com for $2.99.
(Free whois on/off in the cp).

I later saw that their renewal cost is 7.88. If I had registered for two years
right on, the cost would have been, or is, 8.76 (compared to 2.99 + 7.88 = 10.87). Very well, a 2 dollar difference. But maybe the best investment to register for 2 years is if you plan to do a minisite (like I do, with adsense).
Google probably gives better ranking for domains with more than one year registration (giving a serious user a deserved trust from the beginning). In that sense, it must be well worth that little extra money, yes little money. Just slightly better ranking could increase a yearly earning, as an example from 200 to say 225, who knows.

Do you have any experiences around this?

 

[ssamriga]

I haven't heard anywhere that google would do anything like that...

 

[-REECE-]

Google does indeed take into account length of registration (as well as domain age) in their algorithm.

If you think about it for a sec... Doesn't it make perfect sense that a 10 year old domain name that expires in 2018 is highly unlikely to be a MFA or scarper site and hence should rank higher than sites that "might be"?

 

[shockie]

reece is right; age and length matter. this is one of the reasons that google is a registrar too, and in fact baidu is moving in the same direction as well.

 

[ssamriga]

I knew about the age, but can you please give me a source about reg length?