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This post still covers about domain, after earlier I made a post about used domains/aged domains. And I’ve made around 6-10 used domains and dropped domains, and I think I have learned several tips for you that intended to buy used domains.

This is based on my personal experience buying domains from some of digitalpoints members, so you might find this tips are rather ‘old tips’, but who knows for the rest of you you can avail from this tips, here the tips on buying used domain:

• Domain Age is the first to check, the older the domain the higher the price. Don’t let seller tricks you by saying the cartain domain is bla bla bla years old, check first by yourself, there are many domain checker or you can do it by whois-ing the certain domain.
• Also check current domain registrar renewal price, because several domain registrar charge a lot of bucks for renewal (I cancelled to buy used domain once, because I saw that the renewal price was $35.00 and domain will be expired in 2 days. It’s ok when the domain is worth money, but some want domain temporarily.
• Check whether the domain is indexed by search or not, as I know there is no other better way to check whether domain is banned or penalized by search engine but to check it with the corresponding search engine.
• Check with google adsense preview tool to ensure that the domain is not banned by google adsense, although this is optional but you might have ideas to monetize the domain later after you get it, this is how to check the domain with google adsense preview tool.
• Check whether the domain is listed on major directory such as DMOZ, yahoo, etc or even archive.org. Having links from said directories/websites are plus value because it tend have long terms quality links from reputable website.
• Although it’s hard to find used domain that match to your future website/blog niche, looking the easy to remember domain name is a very good option, however if you cannot find this domain it’s better to use a general name that does not reflect the niche/content at all.

Below is screenshot from the 9 days old domain that have a valid Pagerank of 5. Yes it’s a valid pagerank, but the domain worth for less than $20 because it’s a dropped domain.

There are always places for creative people

I forgot where did I find quote above, but if you think about it you will never regret your life, in fact you will thank to God in every breath you take, every luck you get and every buck you earn :). I will not talking about God, but sure, I will talking about how creative people do to earn some money on the net.

So you want domain, but you need asap AND need it with some pagerank attached because you also want to earn some money from it quickly. You can get this kind of domain from digitalpoints.com forums, specially in domain (or site) forums. You can find lots of aged domains (that’s what they call for already registered domain) in various prices, from $1, $100 to a whooping $5000 and may be more.

And how come, an already registered domain can be that valuable
I did asked this question in my first time visited there, I fully understand if that offered domain is a good, readable, short domain just like tags [dot] com, or best [dot] com, but for non-special named domains? I would not pay for a buck, I could wait it delete and than available again, so I can buy it.

Of course I was totally wrong, to wait domain name for dropping is easy but to buy RIGHT time after it’s been dropped is a very difficult process, because it machines we compete with, an not human. I’m talking about an automate script own by big domain player that automatically buy certain domains a milisecond after it being dropped! Although it nearly impossible for us to get dropped domain, but sometimes we can buy it too, like I did 4 days ago.

But buying dropped domain will delete its previous attributes, and happy or not, it will be counted as a new domain. Although the domain’s pagerank still intact after we buy it, but googoo MIGHT drop the pagerank after future pagerank update. I said MIGHT because I never prooved it myself (in fact I’m trying to proove the theori by buying dropped domains and playing some experiment on it).

Aside from buying dropped domain, buying an already registered domain will obtain many benefits:

• The domain age, domain age still intact because we only change some partial informations
• Pagerank, pagerank also intact, as long as it is fully maintained soon after domain take over
• data preservation, some of domain have been listed on archive.org, yahoo directory, etc, also it might have some links from other regular site before

And since the first impression of website is the layout and then pagerank, buying domain with pagerank is a fast solution for website that want to quickly enter the money earning gateway (of course not that fast, but you will figure it out how fast it is, it it compared with fresh domain).

And that is one of the reason why sex [dot] com are sold in a whooping thousand dollars if its not million dollars! (I forgot the exact price). And talking about creative, there are many members sell their domains, some with PR, some not, many in cheap price and the other are soo expensive. BUT please be aware too, some also playing some nuts trick by buying some dropped domain with pagerank ans sell it three times or two times higher than fresh domain’s price.

So be carefull, because like I said, there are always places for creative people and be sure don’t be a victim of creative people up here…