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Blocked or banned domain names |
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Buying a "used" domain name is kind of like
buying a used car - what the previous owner did with the car can have an
impact on how well the car will perform for you. Wouldn't it be nice to
know the history of what you are buying? Unfortunately, if you are
buying a domain name, there is nothing like CARFAX that can tell you
what incidents your domain name has been involved in. The Internet is
comprised of literally billions of websites, so there is no way to
determine if the previous owner of your domain name did something to
offend some of those billions of sites.
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Now maybe some of those billions of sites are easily offended and/or
make mistakes in judging the actions of a domain name, but the fact is
that virtually any domain website or mail server can "block" or "ban"
any other domain website or mailserver. So if you buy a used domain
name, it may not be accessible to the entire Internet. This may not have
a measurable impact on the potential of your domain, but what if Google
previously banned that domain name (will not list it in their search
engine) or AOL blocked all emails coming from that domain? These
examples would obviously significantly limit the upside potential of the
domain. Worse yet, what if you purchased a domain name, built a web
presence and marketing campaign around it and then found out that you
couldn't get it into Google's search engine?
If you took this fear to the extreme, then you would never want to buy a
previously used domain name at all, but then you would be stuck with the
reality of having to take whatever is the best name you can come up with
that isn't already reserved by someone else and also with a lead time of
several months to a year before you could realistically expect any
success from that web site. Your best choice to quicker success is to
buy a domain name from a reputable company (like Domain Gardener) that
was careful with how the domain name was used and did not use the domain
name for spamming purposes.
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