Ive done some experiments over the past few months about expiring domains with PR to see if it is worth your while to catch these expired and deleted domains.
My idea why I would like to use expired domains is the notion that old domains are favored than new domains, and to get instant PR.
So I set out to find deleted domains with PR that I can register. One characteristic of domains I was looking for was that the domain still had a PR, and it was still listed in google.
I wont be mentioning the actual domains here as I need to control the results and prevent people from making backlinks to these domains.
I registered about 4 domains, some have PR2 and PR3. Some have a few pages indexed, some have a few thousand. I also bought a couple of new domains for my new projects.
I found out that google rarely visits these domains so I need to prime it but with some fresh backlinks. After creating some backlinks to these domains, two domains eventually lost their PR. These two domains have only a few pages indexed in google. In one domain, I did a 301 permanent redirect to the new index page. This domain retained its PR. One key difference this domain...