Age

[dschall]

I found a guy selling aged sites the other day, said site was 8 years old. Looked on whois and it shows registered January 2nd 2010. I inform seller that site is only 6 months old and that whois shows this and he says:

http://www.webconfs.com/domain-age.php
chk with this.It will tell you the age of the domain.Whoiz will tell you when the last tym the domain is registered not the entire age of the domain

apparently this tool searches the waybackmachine for first sign of site. and entering in his domain showed 8 years old. Even if the domain was never dropped and did show a 2002 date and was 8 years old, it was obvious that this site had been up for 3 months at the most.

So reg date new, site new, not old site or old domain.

So...do you consider domain age and site age into your value of a website you are buying? What about yours that you are selling?

[Clinton]

dschall, I didn't know about that "tool" which looks ideal for scammers who buy dropped domains and pass them off as aged sites.

It's a common trick among the DP crowd.

I'm moving this thread to the DD section.

[hooperman]

So...do you consider domain age and site age into your value of a website you are buying? What about yours that you are selling?

I'm not bothered about domain age. I think sellers would have you believe that domain age gives you a bit of a boost in the search engines, but I don't buy that. You could have bought a domain 10 years ago and just develop it last month - what does the domain being 10 years old mean here? Not much.

I prefer to see age in other things, like content on pages and especially in links. The longer an inbound link has stayed, the "stronger" that vote, or at least the more credible.

[benitez17]

I can't see how this would be more accurate than whois, and I would be skeptical about anyone who suggested using this tool for anything meaningful.

Also, it didn't work when I tested out the tool.

[Andy]

I agree with hooperman - "history" is more important than age. I'm more concerned with what content has been in place and for how long. Talked to a fellow a week or so ago who controls "stayathomedads.com". He's had it for a long time and wants significant cash for it - IF he sells it. But there's nothing there. I nearly pleaded with him to put some content on it - something. And, yes, I did encourage him to stop here and poke around.

As far as the tool goes, I see no reason to use it.

Andy