Domain Name Age?

[martyn.b]

Recently i have just purchased my name as a domain name i've done the usually checks and the domain has an age 2000. Which I'm happy about i have been taking to friend recently and also reading on the forums that domain age is important.

Whats your thoughts? I would be interested to hear.

Thanks

 

[RegFee]

If the name is old and has consistent registration (aka, has never been dropped), I've read that Google's Pagerank algo likes it better. Other than that, if you consider both domain age and number of archive.org records, you can sometimes find a name that was previously developed and therefore has some residual traffic.

 

[whitebark]

In order for google to give authority to a domain due to age it must have been indexed and stayed there.

 

[fpforum]

yes domain age is important...But only if it has never been dropped and removed from the google cache. If the domain dropped a while ago, and is no longer in the google cache, then im not sure the age is really going to matter anymore.

 

[dcristo]

Domain age is important, but only if the domain had an established site, otherwise it doesn't count for much.