Question about forged PR.

[Ronald Regging]

I registered a domain back in May, which I think was an expired domain. Since then, it's been parked at Sedo and I have done absolutely nothing with it.

Today I decided to lookup the PR of a few of my domains, and this domain came back from the PR lookup on seochat as being PR 4. I wasn't expecting this, because as I mentioned, it's been parked for 4-5 months and I've done nothing with it. So I checked it on another site, checkpagerank.net and it showed it as PR 3, but stated that the PR was forged.

So my question is how exactly does a domain get a forged PR and is there anything I can do to remove it? I've never mentioned the PR (because I just found out about it) when trying to sell it and I don't want to, but I am a little worried that a prospective buyer may research the domain, see the forged PR and think something is fishy.

Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.

 

[Peter]

the pr you have received is actually the pr for the parked page and not for your domain. I am not sure if there is anything you can do about it but after a while it will go (most likely when you move it away from parking).

If you try and sell it just be sure to let people know why it comes up fake pf.

 

[YesBrilliant]

Google resets the PR when a domain drops and does not grant original, full PR ratings to parked domains.

The best to do is to develop the name, even partially, or to restore it according to webarchive.org (being careful to never use copyright material or infringe TMs).

The PR will usually be restored by the next update, considering it was a real PR, specially if the domain has a good number of backlinks, preferably in the thousands.

Hope that helps.