Are the expired domains of high PR website of any value?

How do you determine their value?

[italiandragon]

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I see domain lists for deleting domains of high Pagerank websites.

Are the deleted domains of high PR websites worth more than other domains or do they have to be valued by different measures?

How do you determine their value?

[edited by: Webwork at 8:53 pm (utc) on Mar. 7, 2006]
[edit reason] Charter [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[Webwork]

The short answer is there may be a "traffic value" based upon the number and quality/source of the inbound links to an expired domain. The greater the projected residual traffic the more valuable the domain.

With expired domains it's not just about sheer volume of links as such links that matter, as such links may be the product of guestbook spamming, log file spamming, blog spamming, etc.

Pagerank is emphemera, vapor, something of little material value. It can vaporize overnight, such as when a website URL expires and is deleted.

[italiandragon]

oh...and do you know if there is a way to determine the past of a website without knowing it?

Some kind of software.....possibly free?

Thanks for the help. :)

[Moosetick]

There are several web archives. Just do a search for web archive.

Internet Archive [Archive.org] is a good place to start.

[edited by: Webwork at 7:05 pm (utc) on Mar. 8, 2006]
[edit reason] Clarified. Archive.org is an acceptable authority reference link. [/edit]

[stu2]

If the domain truly expires, all PR is lost. If it is captured by a dropcatcher/auction house before it expires the PR for each page is kept, providing you still use the same pagenames, at least until google reviews it again.

The more important issue, related to PR, is the backlinks and amount of traffic they generate, and whether you can turn that traffic into value. That might provide a clue as to whether any expiring domain with PR has value or not.

[italiandragon]

thanks very much for the useful info, I`m going to see that archive.

Cheers.

[somerset]

yes, just as mentioned, on buying a fully expired domain, all PR is wiped off. I experimented and regisered 8 domains ith PR ranging from 5 to 7 (.com and .info). But all have been wiped.

I wonder though if Google will later re-apply the backlinks, as those sites are still linking to the domains.

[italiandragon]

hello somerset, did you experience people still coming from old links?

I saw somewhere some deleted names which they had PR9!
I wanted to register them but I could not believe at it and I thought it was a mistake since the names were not so great.