debate Domain Age, Why Do So Many Domainers Lie About It?

[Daniel Owens]

Often, when I'm looking at a domain on namepros or some other platforms that require the seller input the registration date of the domain I see one immoral thing done over and over. What, many domainers are doing is hand-regging a domain like yesterday //.2018 but putting age as 1998 or something. Maybe, it was regged in 1998 the first time (although no way to check as hosterstats only had year 2000+ data). Why do they lie about it? Do you all agree this is a practice that should be stopped and that domainers should not say a hand-regged domain is 20+ years old? Do you agree the age/date stated should match the current whois?

 

[Daniel Owens]

@namerav I've seen thousands of domainers lie about it.

 

[namerav]

@namerav I've seen thousands of domainers lie about it.

Maybe due to confusion/ignorance because ultimately people will check and eventually know the right age of domain.

 

[ImpressionStream]

Misquoting domain age may possibly be done by few new domainers. I believe with experience new domainers learn to respect other fellow domainers' intellect.

 

[namerav]

"Do you agree it is wrong to register a domain today then claim it is several years old?"

No, I do not think it's wrong. I think it's stupid. It's easily verifiable??

I agree.
Even if domain age is mentioned wrongly, it is easily verifiable and can be corrected.

 

[namerav]

Some sites where you can check true age of domain are:
DomainIQ.com
Godaddy.com
Whois.com

 

[maxtra]

I feel as if it is an honest mistake when people do this. I did the same thing when I first started, looking at archive.org and saying domain was that many years old. I did not understand that if a domain is dropped, then the age of the domain resets.