Domain age?

[mis_chiff]

Can anyone explain what determines the true age of a domain?
When you "regged it" or the age this shows?
http://www.webconfs.com/domain-age.php

and when your selling a domain, what age do you put
if you just regged it 3 months ago - but the tool shows it's 3 years old?
which is the real age?

For example - I regged salmon.cc about a month ago
but the tool shows it's 7 years old...so when someone says
they want a domain that is over 2 years old...is this considered one?

thanks

 

[Damion]

Hi Wendy,

The tool you have used utilizes this tool...the wayback machine and as you can see when you enter your domain salmon.cc there is an existing archive present.

This domain has been used by the Clallam Conservation District in 1999 so this is where the result of 7 years came from.

The domain has been expired and released and then picked up by you so then the circle has been broken so to speak since they registered the domain.


The age of the domain regarding search engines is as follows:

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc.
Domain Name: SALMON.CC
Created on: 23-Jul-06
Expires on: 24-Jul-07


Since search engines look up the whois to determine the age of a domain.
If you would for example bought the domain from the previous owner you would have a domain dating back to 1999 since the domain has not been deleted and made available again through the registry.

The tool you have used is nice to see if a domain has a background of previous usage but not for domain age.
This is actually misleading in my opinion from the website operators that made the above tool available.

If a domain has a history it may be possible to still have existing links to it and therefor providing some link value because of the age of the links linking to the domain.

 

[cache]

however, sometimes the wayback machine does not start the year when it was purchased.

Hi Wendy,

The tool you have used utilizes this tool...the wayback machine and as you can see when you enter your domain salmon.cc there is an existing archive present.

This domain has been used by the Clallam Conservation District in 1999 so this is where the result of 7 years came from.

The domain has been expired and released and then picked up by you so then the circle has been broken so to speak since they registered the domain.


The age of the domain regarding search engines is as follows:

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc.
Domain Name: SALMON.CC
Created on: 23-Jul-06
Expires on: 24-Jul-07


Since search engines look up the whois to determine the age of a domain.
If you would for example bought the domain from the previous owner you would have a domain dating back to 1999 since the domain has not been deleted and made available again through the registry.

The tool you have used is nice to see if a domain has a background of previous usage but not for domain age.
This is actually misleading in my opinion from the website operators that made the above tool available.

If a domain has a history it may be possible to still have existing links to it and therefor providing some link value because of the age of the links linking to the domain.

 

[Damion]

however, sometimes the wayback machine does not start the year when it was purchased.

True and that's why in my post i wrote:
"The tool you have used is nice to see if a domain has a background of previous usage but not for domain age."

 

[mis_chiff]

Thanks for the replies, clears it up alittle...
so regardless of when it was "originally" created,
because I hand regged it, it means the age starts there?
but does having that history help, knowing it's been around
for 7 years on the web?

 

[Damion]

Yeah, the reg starts at the date you regged it meaning the age of a domain starts from that point.
It does ad some potential value in regards with old existing links that may still be linking to the domain.

It would have been a "old" domain if you could have bought it of the previous owner but since you hand regged it it's not regarded as a new domain.