MamaDawg - 7:38 pm on Sep 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

I know one person who unknowingly bought a domain with a "bad history" - took them well over a year (and some begging) to convince Google to lift the penalty.

Here's an old thread where Googleguy talks about domains with a tainted past:

[webmasterworld.com...]

I don't know if anything's changed since then.