Domain name with rankNo1.

[AmateurPaulie]

I happen to find out, that there is a site which ranks no.1 in organic (is that right term?) search, and it will expire tomorrow (doamin name that is). My starting business
is oriented almost same way as current website is.
Can I gain from buying this domain name, and somehow keep this rank? If so, how?

Also, if who is lookup says domain expires on 08-17, is it easy to get it (if owner will not renew, of course..)

Thank you for help
Paul

[AmateurPaulie]

could you please give me a hint?

I would apreciate any suggestion
Thank you
Paul

[Eltiti]

You could take a look at the "backorder" or "domain drop" services offered by several parties. You should be aware, however, that the chances of a beginner "catching" a good domain are rather small...

[Beagle]

Many registrars give "grace periods" when domain names expire, so even if the name officially expires on August 17, it may not be available then. Rather unlikely, I'd think, that a #1 site would let its domain name slip away - assuming the site is still active.

If its traffic is truly "organic," people go there because they like the site, or because it's recommended to them, not because they find it on a search engine. So if by some chance you were able to grab the domain name, to keep visitors coming you'd have to be ready to provide them with whatever it is that led them to the site in the first place (I'm not saying you couldn't do it, just that it's something to consider).

OTOH, no one can stop you from coming up with a great domain name and a site visitors will love in its own right, and compete for that #1 spot yourself.

[mack]

Before attempting to register a domain that is currently in service it is always worth making sure it is not a trademark etc.

That sort of thing can get you on to hot water down the line.

Mack.

[AmateurPaulie]

thank you for advice,
btw. it was not a traffic rank but search rank (forgive me me English, I am Czech)
My intentions would be to captuire that domain name and use it or redirect it to my website. So my question was if I capture that domain name, and it will be hosted somewhere else, it it will still stay on same seacrh rank

[Beagle]

So my question was if I capture that domain name, and it will be hosted somewhere else, it it will still stay on same seacrh rank

The hosting shouldn't matter, but the site will. If you build a site using that domain name, the next time a search engine spider comes visiting it will be looking at your site, and ranking according to what it finds there. There might be some cached pages of the previous site in the search results for awhile, but those probably wouldn't do your site a lot of good.

I don't know much about the "sandbox" issue - whether it takes a new site a long time to get indexed - so I don't know if using an already-active domain would help in that or not. That'd be the one possible search engine benefit I'd see.