jd01 - 1:39 am on Oct 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

Since you don't want to do anything based on an educated guess, let me give you an uneducated one: (Don't do anything based on it either... Sit back and think about it, then make your own best decision, because you're the one who has to live with the results.)

I would think quite a bit would have to do with the domain it's redirected to and what happens to the content on the original... SteveB is right you could not get Adobe penalized by redirecting to them, but IMO you might be able to take the penalty with you by 301ing to the exact same site on a new domain, otherwise anyone with a penalty would just redirect and be back in.

Think about what makes sense as far as how you would keep people from getting back in by redirecting to a new domain, while still keeping people from being able to just 301 anywhere and do damage to another website and IMO you'll probably get fairly close to G policy, because IMO (again) there's only a few things that make sense.

It's just a guess on my part though. I honestly do not have any experience with getting a banned domain back in or redirecting one or even working on one.

[edited by: jd01 at 1:44 am (utc) on Oct. 4, 2009]