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Originally Posted by Ender
See, it's become a problem that people will register a domain, keep it up for just a few days, run ads on it, (we've all seen these phony search engines) and then cancel the domain before the refund period ends (30 days, I think.)
Thusly, Google decided to reward people who are building sites that are clearly intended for the very-long-haul.
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yes and no.
Its called Kiting, and Its only a 5 day period, so rewarding old domains cant be connected to this.
here is some great reading on this seperate problem though:
From Bob Parson Blog:
http://www.bobparsons.com/MayKiting.html
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92.3% of May registrations were kited domains!
Consider this: Just over 35 million names were registered for the month of May. Of those just over 2.7 million were permanent registrations. That means that 92.3% of all domain names registered were part of a scam now known as domain kiting. These names were kept off of the market, they were used to generate search engine revenue – AND BECAUSE OF A LOOPHOLE ICANN REFUSES TO ELIMINATE – those 32.3 million names were used without being paid for.
Rewarding an aged domain may deter some forms of spam, but it is a pretty inefficient way to influence relevence. The final product may be somewhat more relevent, but you allow other forms of irrelevence into the top pages.
EXAMPLE; nest time you get a link to your website, and then find that the page with that link outranks you cause the URL is older.
Prevent one problem but causes this other seperate problem.