Handy tip to check Copyright Infringement Google domian bans

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I was domain hunting this morning in a market that has been hit severely in the past by copyright infringement notices issued to Google by the copyright holders, resulting in the domains being banned from SERPs. This includes domains that didn't infringe copyright (i.e. brand trademark infringement), but the sites were using copyrighted images without permission.

The site chillingeffects.org tries to document all cases of DMCA complaints to Google. You can do a google search on the chillingeffects.org site, and check for any domain you're interested in. For e.g.:

site:chillingeffects.org "domain.com"

It's quite interesting reading the notices as well. This tip might only be useful for markets you know have been hit, but still it's good to check before buying a dropped domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author Will Edwards
    Good tip - I don't generally buy expired domains, but thanks for posting. It's something I'll bear in mind for the future.

    Will
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    • Profile picture of the author Brandawg
      Originally Posted by Will Edwards View Post

      Good tip - I don't generally buy expired domains, but thanks for posting. It's something I'll bear in mind for the future.

      Will
      Will, I'm curious to know why you don't buy expired domains.

      Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
      Originally Posted by Will Edwards View Post

      Good tip - I don't generally buy expired domains, but thanks for posting. It's something I'll bear in mind for the future.

      Will
      How do you know the name did not expire 10 years ago?

      The older the internet gets, the more likely you are to buy an expired name.

      To the OP - thank you for the tip.
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      • Profile picture of the author Brandawg
        Originally Posted by ~kev~ View Post

        How do you know the name did not expire 10 years ago?

        The older the internet gets, the more likely you are to buy an expired name.
        I see, so buying an expired domain is risky because it maybe old? Is that a bad thing? I thought old domains are coveted internet property?

        What if the domain still has a high PR? If it expired 10 years ago does that mean that the PR is insignificant?
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        • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
          Originally Posted by Brandawg View Post

          I see, so buying an expired domain is risky because it maybe old? Is that a bad thing? I thought old domains are coveted internet property?

          What if the domain still has a high PR? If it expired 10 years ago does that mean that the PR is insignificant?
          Back around 2001, 2002 I was visiting a video game site. I changed jobs, moved, and during all of that I stopped visiting the site for a couple of years.

          About 3 or 4 years ago I went back to the site (2008), only to find out the name had expired.

          I bought the domain name as fast as I could.

          After I bought the domain name I started looking for backlinks, and through archive.org.

          Come to find out, a couple of college guys had opened the site all the way back in 1999. They kept it alive from 1999 to around 2004, when they lost interest in the game and let the domain name expire.

          One of parked domain companies bought the name, and parked it for around 3 years.

          I bought the name in something like 2008, after the parking company let the name expire.

          When I installed wordpress, the site recovered its decade old ranking in a matter of days. Looking through google webmaster tools I found links that were almost decade old that the college kids had posted back in 1999, 2000, and 2001.

          How would I have know in 2008 that the domain name had been used before? Unless I did some research, or visited the site before.

          If you go to godaddy or namecheap and buy a domain name, does not mean it has not been used before.
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      • Profile picture of the author Green Moon
        Originally Posted by ~kev~ View Post

        How do you know the name did not expire 10 years ago?

        The older the internet gets, the more likely you are to buy an expired name.
        You won't know if you just buy the domain without doing any research, but if you check the Internet Archive and do a Google search on the name, you will generally find some traces of it if it was ever registered.

        If you find absolutely no indication that it was ever registered, then even if it WAS actually registered sometime in the long distant past, it was probably so far off the radar that it is unlikely to carry any negatives with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author matchoo77
    Cool tip. To those of you who replied with "thanks", why haven't you hit the "thanks" button???
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  • Profile picture of the author Dmarcotte
    Thanks for the tip - this is a great resource.
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