Spammy domain?

Try it out on a test domain and see what happens. If the PR sticks then all is good and go for it.

Is it indexed? because the japanese site that occupied it last is not a good sign

Since you ask that question, I think you are in for a little bit more domain
research.

A lot of people buy a domain, then it doesn't work out.

The internet world runs on english domains and characters, with an
increasing, but still very few instances of doing otherwise.

Paul

I doubt very much whether the domain was picked up coincidentally by a Japanese person only to be dropped later on. I typically avoid such a domain because it's not really worth the risk.

Since you have already purchased it, I'd set it up with a couple of pages of content and not put any links in at all. See if it gets indexed and if it does then maybe there is some life in it yet. Even then I would not be linking to any money site that I really cared too much about.

Alternatively, if the domain gets indexed, you could try 301ing it afterwards to a fresh domain since you say that none of the links show as having Japanese characters in them.

Thanks, Ill keep all this in mind for next time. It was cheap so its no biggie, ill see if it gets indexed.

I scrape the web daily for expired domains. I notice that these Japanese spammed sites are extremely dominant. I'd imagine most of them are interrelated I think the same person/persons are responsible for many of these. The second I come across these I immediately move on.

Let me guess it was a one-page site, all text, no images, and hardly any outbound links right? I translated a few of these just out of curiosity and some of it was about some really twisted incest type of stuff.

Usually they don't build many links, if at all they piggyback off the authority of the previous English site. Sometimes there are a few Japanese backlinks. The anchor text is usually all in English.

My guess is a huge Japanese network 10,000's that was identified and deindexed. If you plan on using this I wouldn't point it at any site you aren't willing to lose. See if you can get the PBN site back in the index.

I've learned to avoid the bulk of these when scraping by getting VERY creative with my footprints. If you try to look for available domains by scraping broken links using the footprint "inurl:links.html" you aren't going to get very far. Those were picked, and burnt to the ground a LOOOOOOONG time ago, unless you get lucky and find something that was overlooked. (Doubt it).