PR4

This morning I opened my email and read with surprise that GoDaddy has just ‘captured’ a domain for me. You see I was reading some online articles how some people were buying expired domains with PR on them. I was suffering from Pagerank Deficiency Syndrome (PDS) after both my PR4 and PR2 website were ‘zerofied’ so I wanted to see if I can get one domain with decent PR. (pathethic ain’t it?).

Usually an expired domain name will just lose it’s PR once it is expired. However if you are fast enough and reserve an expiring domain using a service like the GoDaddy Back Order, it’s possible to get the domain name with it’s PR intact. (at least that’s what the online articles said anyway)

1st try: Failure

I went to search for an expiring domain and found one that was PR5. Used GoDaddy backorder feature but after a day, GoDaddy told me that the capture was unsuccessful.

2nd try: Failure (sort of)

GoDaddy allowed me the option to capture another domain name without additional cost so on my second try I chose a PR4 domain with a decent name. A day later, same email told me that the domain capture was unsuccessful. Feeling dejected, I didn’t continue and just left it at that.

However, after 3 days, I got another email from GoDaddy telling me that the capture was successful for the same domain name. It’s a pleasant surprise and my first thing that I did was install Wordpress on it. Then I went to the site and checked that it is indeed PR4. So I bought an expired PR4 domain for USD 18.95. Is that cheap?

Now the only thing to think about is: What do I put on it?

Related Links:
Does expired domain retain their PR ?(Webmasterworld Forum thread)

PS: Still paranoid showing the URL here as I don’t want it to be zerofied by Google.

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