This may be a dumb question...

[nt81]

Hey everyone.

I'm new to the whole domaining thing.

Lets just say that i'm working on a tool to help find desirable domains (which I will share with everyone when it launches in Feb 2014).

It came across this expired domain - musicv5.com.au

All the Pagerank Checkers have this domain at a PR5 yet it has no history, no backlinks. Is this domain a false positive in my search results? Is it worth registering to anyone who knows anything?

I understand that as far as Google cares, PR means a lot less than it used to. So i'm not all that concerned about the domain itself.

I also really don't care if someone registers the domain - i'm just looking for feedback to fine-tune my domaining machine

Cheers

-Nick

 

[geodomains]

Hi Nick,
If you type into Google.com.au info:www.musicv5.com.au you will see it's a re-direct. This is why it's a false PR.

Don

 

[nt81]

Aaaaah, thanks Don.

I was assuming redirect but I tried site:www.musicv5.com.au instead

Explains it all. Thanks!

 

[James]

Dont check the quality of backliks using tool bar page rank, go and in vest in a high quality backlink tool further to this as above check for re directs or other malicious PR hacks before you buy a domain.

 

[nt81]

Already in progress

The API's don't come cheap!

Also, the PR check was off someone else's PR API which is free, so I was mainly testing to see how much merit there was in including that as a search metric in my website.

Cheers

-Nick

 

[jamesau]

I imagine you've looked into the Open Site Explorer API by Moz.com? It's the same one that powers some data in the droplist here.

If you haven't investigated, it's definitely worth a look. Depending on the volume of your API calls it could be ideal as the data it pumps out is comprehensive.

http://moz.com/products/api/

 

[nt81]

I sure have and thanks for the feedback.

With MOZ, $500 per month is a bit steep for a start-up though, but it is ultimately where the site will be headed once it has a few paying subscribers.

 

[netik]

You can also check google cached page to confirm PR is fake:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.musicv5.com.au/

This was one of the methods to scam people - redirect your website to authoritative website, wait until google updates PR, remove redirect and sell links on "PR7 website!" Maybe that was the reason why google updates PR once a year now...

And yea, I'm very interested in your software. Please let us know when it's live...