High PageRank Domain Fraud
EF NOTE: This is for those among you who want to buy domains based on their Google PageRank (PR) ratings, and are willing to pay a premium for higher PRs. Shopping through registrars like GoDaddy and auction sites like eBay for good, clever and very marketable domains without regard to PR (and their higher prices) don’t have to be quite as worried about the “fraud” described here, but you may still want to use some of the really helpful domain checker tools mentioned in this very useful article.
By Jerry West
This article covers the rising rate of fraud in the industries of selling expired and used domains.
I recently purchased some good and seemingly well-established domains (they had good PageRanks) from a broker. However, when I “got them home” so to speak, they were far from what I thought I had purchased. In my investigation into this, it was clear the domains I had purchased — and many of the domains being sold today from brokers (especially on eBay) — are littered with fraud.
