Should Search Engines Ban Expired Domain Names?
When a domain name isn’t renewed by its owner, should search engines automatically ban a domain name from its index? I don’t think so. Here’s why: A domain name, in my opinion, is just like a piece of real estate–or a plot of land. It has a location. If you do not pay your taxes, a government entity has the right to take it over and sell that land to the highest bidder. You may have paid $100,000 three years ago for that land–but if you do not pay your taxes I have the right to bid on it and purchase it from the government. And I might purchase it for half or a third of what you paid for it. It should be the same for domain names. I consider them like “real estate”. You have to pay your domain name registration fees. If you do not pay your fees, then you will lose ownership of that domain name, plain and simple. I honestly don’t understand the reasoning behind why a search engine thinks that they feel they can disrupt this completely legal, natural process of the buying and selling o
