Internet Marketing Tycoon

**Rooby** · 09-02-2006, 02:08 PM

(Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but the posts in the others didn't seem to really fit.)

I see people on forums like this one selling and buying domain names that, as far as I can tell, aren't anything special. The other day I saw someone list a handful of vague, three-word domains that weren't very easy to remember, and within a few hours, he had sold 2 of them for about $75 each. My best guess is that the buyers would either use the domains to redirect to their own sites, OR they would maybe make a single home page for that site, and then link the content to their other sites. But I swore that I read those things would get you penalized by Google. Is that not true? Can anyone explain exactly why someone would pay $75 for a domain without a website (could they really have any traffic)?

**stOx** · 09-02-2006, 03:18 PM

Personally i would buy an old domain name hoping to avoid the ageing delay that sometime penalises new domains.

**chrishirst** · 09-02-2006, 04:01 PM

and the spammers also snap up domains for the same reason. they can then "crash and burn" them sooner.

Matt Cutts has suggested that a domain transfer could make the aging delay "symptoms" reoccur.