opinion How Does The Age A Name Bring Value?

[EASYPICKINGS]

The name usshelf.com was registered in 2009, which makes it 20 years old with godaddy. How does its age, and history behind it effect its price, compared to a similar name created this year when the ultimate end-user typically doesn't even care the age of the name when they just looked it up knowing exactly what they wanted.

 

[4better]

If domain of 10 or 20 years old was not ever sold, this may be a mere proof of it's sh*tness. That noone ever wanted it. Another face of the coin.

Perhaps one of the other side of the coin why an aged domain was not ever sold could simply be the owner always rejects low ball offers and wants a price that could fulfill his dreams and aspirations in life.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

Perhaps one of the other side of the coin why an aged domain was not ever sold could simply be the owner always rejects low ball offers and wants a price that could fulfill his dreams and aspirations in life.

True - in other words, a patient owner.
Better to keep the chance to get rich instead of selling it for a fast but low profit.

 

[poweredbyme]

Similarly, search engines used to give more weight to domains that were aged because search engines assumed that since the domains had been around longer, the domains were probably more established with better content than a domain registered yesterday. That increased the demand and value for aged domains for a while. Today, search engines may still do this to a negligible degree, but it's not worth considering for SEO purposes anymore.

Search engines give the most weight to user interaction with the page. This trend has started 10+ years ago. Now its weight reached to over 80% in my opinion. Because its importance has been well tested especially after search engines became able to track visitors accurately.

Other SEO factors are now less powerful. EMD lost its power long before, more recently backlink factor followed the unfortunate end of EMD factor (including natural and powerful baclinks). I always defend search engines can never detect if a backlink is natural or not. It seems finally search engines accepted this fact and decided to remove backlinks factor from the table. Which factor left that's tied merely to domain itself except its age? Nothing. Only age factor remained untouched.

In the reality SEO value of a domain lost. As backinks and EMD lost their power almost entirely (if you aren't a search engine staff it's difficult to know exact weight of every factor as this knowledge is kept very private to prevent manipulation of search results), age benefit became less noticeable along with total SEO power of a domain.

Your opinion is not completely wrong, is rather incomplete. Age factor has never been very powerful, but has been always been bigger than zero. If you buy a domain for better SE rankings, you must still buy an aged one. You just don't need to pay more for its backlinks or the words in it, including its extension for SEO. Or, maybe you must never buy a domain merely for SEO.

Lastly, if a domain is still in search index, bad history shouldn't affect its SEO unless you reinstate the domain with the content in its old bad days. However if an aged domain has bad or negative words in itself, this can affect SEO negatively but not for its bad history.

 

[MR Harrist]

its not about age! but its about demmand! if someone sent you offer, and want to buy, then domain have value! even the domain you just register! but normaly that wont happen! that's why aging domain have value! but its not because of age!

 

[chuckworries]

Aged domains are not valuable
Valuable domains are aged,
They've got registered for about couple of years or for decades. So, they are aged.
Thats what I thought.

----plot twist----

Then I saw some terrible names, which were pretty old.
And then I reconsidered.

So, Age is advantage, but does it brings value? may be, may be not.

 

[Name Trader]

Age doesn't bring value. Value bring age. But there are a lot of stupid people out there, who hang onto valueless domains for years, or even decades.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

I summarized some comments related to this topic, and did a correlational study of age and sales price, in the NamePros Blog.
https://www.namepros.com/blog/does-domain-name-age-matter.1292617/
-Bob