Expired domains

[explorer]

Suppose there is a deleted domain, which before deletion was indexed by google, and had some PR. After reactivation, will it get sandboxed? Any views are welcome...

[Marc_P]

It will very, very likely lose all backlinks and PR.

I say "likely" instead of "for sure" because everything is possible, but I have lots of first hand experience with these and my experience is that it's a gamble where approximately 3-5% of your domains may fly under the radar.

[ogletree]

I have a site I forgot to renew and I can still exclusively renew it but it is gone from G completly. No PR or anything.

[cabbie]

Ogletree,you will find that if you do renew the domain,the pr will return the next pagerank update.
Google is good like that.They delete the pr from domains that have passed a certain expiry date but if the name doesn't actually drop, Google will return its pr.

[explorer]

But will such a site get sandboxed?

[ogletree]

I don't even know if a sandbox exists. Maybe only for competitive general terms. I put up a site and a few months later I am ranking number 8 for a one word term. I'm not sure when it started ranking because I just now checked it.

[Buddha]

OG, was it a brand new domain? And when did you upload it?

[ogletree]

It was a brand new domain. Never used it took me just a few months. I did get a DMOZ link that helped a lot with all the clones out there. It was a personal site.