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?

 

[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.