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tedster -- i think i outlined everything that I'm aware of on the domain. How long would you wait before you submit another reconsideration request?

Do you know of any catch words to include in the request that may help get actual eyeballs on it?

Also, see if there is anything you can discover about past problems that you might be able to straighten out. That kind of action, reported in a reconsideration request, usually goes a long way.

I would not be surprised if Google watches these more carefully than it might watch other types of domain transfers. You might want to check the Wayback Machine to see how this domain was used in a past life.

Way back, prior to the Florida update, I had noticed a number of dot orgs that were dominating some commercial niches. Clearly Google was on to these, and they disappeared somewhere in all the Florida update turmoil.

Robert -- what you are saying makes sense. From what I can tell the organization renamed in early 2004 and they had a placeholder page with a meta redirect instead of a real 301 for 3.5-4 years... then the domain finally expired early this year. Never fully dropped, but something in there set off a flag for google if it wasn't already.

I'm still curious as to whether it was before or after the whois change that they decided to blacklist it. Not sure if there's a definitive way to tell...

I guess I'll just keep publishing content, build as good of links as I can in my niche and cross my fingers.

It really is frustrating when you feel like you're one of the good guys and are trapped. Over the past decade, I've seen some sites of mine drop out for good reasons... to google's credit, this is the first time where I feel like i'm an innocent victim out of over a hundred domains I've worked on. That's still a pretty solid track record on google's part if you ask me.