Definitely, don’t discount dropped domain names. Just learn to tell the good from the bad.

How to say if a dropped domain is any good:

• It has a genuine Google PageRank. Use SeoQuake toolbar to determine that. Explore Yahoo Linkdomain and compare the PR with the number and quality of backlinks. If you find a PR3 site with zero or only a couple of backlinks, it is a fake PR.
• Google has retained the domain and at least some sub-pages in its index. If the site has been kicked out of the index, domain age doesn’t count any more. You are buying just another fresh domain names that will spend the next year in the sandbox.
• Look it up on Archive.org. If it had looked like a normal business website, you should be OK. You are trying to find the shameful past of that domain names. Has it hosted *orn, junk or excessive links?

Not every domain will have its value increased with age. Don’t bother with parked domains, inactive domains and ones that have been banned or removed from Google index (unless it is a one-word, a keyword or any other unmissable brilliant kind of name). If you are doomed to spend a year in a sandbox, don’t spill a fortune on it, you might as well pick a fresh name for a reg fee.

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