BTC123.com closed for a whopping $224,000 at GoDaddy auctions. This name was obviously bid up so high for the backlink profile. According to Ahrefs the name has a domain rating of 60.
Backlinks 13K 61% do follow, Linking websites 348.
Google came out with news last week about using expired domain names.
On their blog “The Keyword” they wrote:
Expired domain abuse
Occasionally, expired domains are purchased and repurposed with the primary intention of boosting search ranking of low-quality or unoriginal content. This can mislead users into thinking the new content is part of the older site, which may not be the case. Expired domains that are purchased and repurposed with the intention of boosting the search ranking of low-quality content are now considered spam.
Search helps people with billions of questions every day, but there will always be areas where we can improve. We’ll continue to work hard at keeping low-quality content on Search to low levels, and showing more information created to help people.
Now someone could just create quality content on Bitcoin, and keep their rating but if they use it to redirect to a crypto casino or something they will have wasted their money on BTC123.com.
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