Domain Age

[sashas]

I have a few domains that were created several years ago (pre 2000, 2001, 2002 etc.) but I happened to register them just a few weeks back.

In this case, does the age of the domain count from the time I registered it, or from the time it was created initially?

Also, is it my good luck that I happened to have freshly registered several .coms/.nets with some history and/or all other TLDs taken, or I simply own bad names? Can so many domainers miss obvious names with backlinks, or names that have better TLDs still available?

 

[champ_rock]

Domain age is the age on the whois records. in ur case it will NOT be 7 or 8 years

however, you can mention that the domain was created back in "so and so" year.

 

[Fewski]

I have a few domains that were created several years ago (pre 2000, 2001, 2002 etc.) but I happened to register them just a few weeks back.

In this case, does the age of the domain count from the time I registered it, or from the time it was created initially?

Also, is it my good luck that I happened to have freshly registered several .coms/.nets with some history and/or all other TLDs taken, or I simply own bad names? Can so many domainers miss obvious names with backlinks, or names that have better TLDs still available?

The time that the domain was registered is what is recorded in whoIS. If you registered it 1 week ago, the domain is '1 week old'.

It maybe good if the domain has some history, some people will see that as a plus and maybe willing to spend more from it. But if it doesn't have any backlinks or anything, most people won't care if it had history.

 

[sashas]

How many backlinks do you think count as a 'decent' number for a fresh reg then?

 

[ChrisChris]

How many backlinks do you think count as a 'decent' number for a fresh reg then?

IMO there isn't a certain number that is counted as decent (especially since it relies on some other factors as well), but the more the better of course

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Check to see if the domain name is archive.org listed or dmoz listed; sometimes that's all the SEO folks care about, although usually they want the age of the domain as listed in the "whois".
As well, 2000 and later, while being 7 years ago (Holy cow - how did that happen!!!) isn't quite old enough to sell a domain on age alone (10 years + at this point).

-Allan :gl:

 

[sashas]

Thanks guys...I do have some names with archive.org pages..but most of the pages are atleast a couple of years old.

Anyway, I got the answer to my question...thanks!