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**fuser_00** · 05-10-2006, 11:38 PM

Hi, i was just wondering....what if i have a site with a page rank of 10 and the domain expires, does the pagerank automatically turns to 0 or if someone registeres that domain starts with a page rank of 10?

Thanks,
Fuser

**Village Idiot** · 05-10-2006, 11:40 PM

doubt it, but just keep your domain registered, high ranking domains are eyed for expiring

**vangogh** · 05-11-2006, 12:07 AM

Fuser just like Dan menioned people look for expiring domains of sites that have been in existence for awhile and have a lot of links pointing to them. Once the new site goes up there will be changes at the search engines as they reindex the new pages and drop the old ones so the new pages won't just start showing up in search results.

However many of the links that were pointing to the old site's home page will prbably still be pointing to the new site's home page which will give the new site's pages more PR than a brand new domain would get.

Also Google considers the age of a domain as part of the algorithm so the site probably wouldn't need to wait before it could compete on many keywords.

Then again for the other side if that old domain had been banned for any reason or the links that helped it become a PR 10 site were gained in spammy ways all of that could be passed on to the new site as well.

**fuser_00** · 05-11-2006, 11:43 AM

Thanks for the help! i think ill start looking for expiring domains jaja

Good Luck and thanks again,
fuser

**modtfc** · 05-11-2006, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vangogh

Fuser just like Dan menioned people look for expiring domains of sites that have been in existence for awhile and have a lot of links pointing to them. Once the new site goes up there will be changes at the search engines as they reindex the new pages and drop the old ones so the new pages won't just start showing up in search results.

However many of the links that were pointing to the old site's home page will prbably still be pointing to the new site's home page which will give the new site's pages more PR than a brand new domain would get.

Also Google considers the age of a domain as part of the algorithm so the site probably wouldn't need to wait before it could compete on many keywords.

Then again for the other side if that old domain had been banned for any reason or the links that helped it become a PR 10 site were gained in spammy ways all of that could be passed on to the new site as well.

Nice answer I had this question as well. Pagerank can also be faked so keep that in mind too (by checking on a non well known site).

**heynow** · 05-14-2006, 12:25 AM

Pagerank is just a bunch of pixels. Anyway you are supposed to lose PR when your domain expires according to Google. Sometimes though they miss it. Namestead had a bunch of free domain names that have dropped. Test some of these domains to see if they still have rank.

Check out justdropped, domainsbot and pool for long lists too... Have fun!