Do Pending-Delete/re-registered domains lose all their value?

[Federer]

Do you think that a nice exact-match keyword domain name (ex. popular product or service domain) that hits pending delete and expires loses all of it's value (just because the creation date is set back to zero, when re-registered a day later)?

 

[Keith]

No

 

[Al Cohol]

I think it depends on who is interested in the name. In a resellers eyes age is factored into the price of a particular domain name, to an enduser I think age holds no bearing in what the interested party is willing to pay.

 

[Name Trader]

No. End Users don't really care about domain age. They either like and want the domain,or they don't. I'm surprised you've ask such a question, tbh.

 

[STELLAR]

No. End Users don't really care about domain age. They either like and want the domain,or they don't. I'm surprised you've ask such a question, tbh.

I think the following might clarify why he asked that, its from another thread.

Thanks.
From time to time I get end users replying they care and base the value/offer on the registration cost...

I don't blame them as many of them might not know about actual value of domains.

I am pretty sure a lot of them either don't know about the value of domains and domaining or they want to acquire domains at lowest possible price.

 

[NameBird]

I think the main reason resellers care about age, is because usually newer domains tend to be bad and so when they are looking to buy domains they don't want to get spammed with bad names. Personally if the name is good enough, age doesn't matter, i.e bespoke.com dropped, I don't think anyone would have factored in age, when bidding on that domain.

 

[Rado_Ch]

Really depends on how the buyer would want to use the domain. If they intend to use it to build a website and a business on it, then having an aged domain does make sense. Domain age, although small, is a factor that search engines take in mind. But the actual make-or-brake here are the backlinks. More intuitive and knowledgeable buyers research if the domain still has any backlinks on it and if they are relevant to their business. Finding such a gem gives you not only age but a ready-built link network which is something quite important. Same goes in the other direction. Failing to research domain history and links may end you up with the negative online reputation of the previous owner plus a ton of links you need to clean up in order to even start your venture

 

[forge]

But the actual make-or-brake here are the backlinks. More intuitive and knowledgeable buyers research if the domain still has any backlinks on it and if they are relevant to their business. Finding such a gem gives you not only age but a ready-built link network which is something quite important.

Ok, I know squat about SEO, so my question is, does the fact that a domain drops and its registration date resets affect the status of the backlinks?

 

[Name Trader]

Well. Yes. If the banklinks are no longer going to a valid page, they will start to drift away, over time.

 

[Rado_Ch]

Ok, I know squat about SEO, so my question is, does the fact that a domain drops and its registration date resets affect the status of the backlinks?

Ah, sorry I missed the part where the domain reaches the Pending Delete stage. In this case its Whois info is indeed reset as if it was never registered beforehand. In such a case age would certainly not be a factor.

 

[venturefile.com]

Ok, I know squat about SEO, so my question is, does the fact that a domain drops and its registration date resets affect the status of the backlinks?

It doesn't affect the status of the backlinks, but it does affect how G will treat your domain/website. Once it is dropped it will treat it like a new domain/site which means that you won't be ranking anytime soon. It usually takes from 4-6 months to start seeing ranking on new domains.

Well. Yes. If the banklinks are no longer going to a valid page, they will start to drift away, over time.

This is not true. Backlinks only go away if they are deleted from the site which was linking to yours. You can create 301 redirects from the old URLs on your domain that the backlinks lead to and still harness their power..

 

[Name Trader]

Ok. So if you don't recreate the redirects, backlinks go away over time. Of course we are talking about backlinks which have any value. Not negative value backlinks.

 

[venturefile.com]

Ok. So if you don't recreate the redirects, backlinks go away over time. Of course we are talking about backlinks which have any value. Not negative value backlinks.

No, they only go away if they are deleted. Even if you don't make the redirects they still point at your domain giving it more domain authority, but if they point to 404 error pages then you won't profit from the link juice that they give you.

 

[Name Trader]

I realize they need to be deleted. But they still go away over time if you don't recreate the redirects. This example is not scientifically justified, but if you have 100 backlinks, my experience has been, you'll probably only have around 50 after 1 year and less than 10 after 2 years. YMMV.

 

[Maxwell]

I doubt federer is genuinely unsure of the answer to this question...he's just hinting to us...

 

[STELLAR]

I doubt federer is genuinely unsure of the answer to this question...he's just hinting to us...

Hint within a domain related question - Domainception!

 

[JanuaryBabe]

End user looking for keyword in the domain name. The domain age have no value if the domain name do not have any web content.