Domain health issues: things to check before buying a domain

When someone buys a domain on the aftermarket instead of hand-registering one, it is expected that an old domain has some advantages over a newly registered one. It has a better name, has some backlinks so it might have better search positions or maybe also have some relevant referral or search traffic. However, many of the listed domains suffer from some health problem and indeed this is the reason why those are listed for sale or let expired. Building success on these domains can be much harder than starting on a fresh domain. Since the online success is strongly dependent

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