Domain Name Never Dropped

[DNBro]

Domain Name Never Dropped

This comment normally found on domain name buy thread

So I like to know to there is any kind of relation between dropped domains with its traffic or search engine ranking later.

Even in a case quality name dropped (especially in this recession period) does it make the name scrap?

Also enduser buying these domains never bothering about whether name registered on 2002 and dropped on 2006 etc

So I like to know about your views, above comments is just a repeat of what other followed previously or there is any real logic behind that comment?

Thanks

 

[JoshuaPz]

Savvy end-users do occasionally look at the whois "Creation Date:", but very few such end-users care (why domainers place so much weight on age is beyond me). The domain keywords' market capital, brevity/memorability, and relevance to the end-user determine the domain's value in end-users' eyes to a far greater extent.

If the end-user you contact gives you flack about how you "just registered XYZ.com yesterday" and in fact you drop-caught (or backordered) XYZ.com, explain that a domain's value correlates much more strongly with when it was INITIALLY registered to when it was PREVIOUSLY registered. Then point him/her to archive.org data on your domain to demonstrate how far back the name's initial registration lies. You might also want to present the whois records of Sentimental.com, Cheesy.com, SleepResearch.com, CatalyticConverter.com, Hatchets.com, HealthCoaching.com, etc. to demonstrate that some valuable domains have registration dates which date back less than 1 year.

My two highest-dollar sales to end-users both involved drop-caught domains -- one two weeks after I caught it, the other three months after.

 

[bmugford]

To a domain name age can be like a fine wine.

If a premium domain is also 13 years old then it certainly doesn't hurt resale value, at the same time if CreditCards.com dropped tomorrow and had a 2009 creation date, it would not sell for less because of that.

Really bad domains can rarely be saved just by age alone, unless it is so old it is a domainer collectible.

To most end users age is completely irrelevant.

Brad