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Originally Posted by Systreg  @ Alex, the thing with say a 1997 domain dropping is that it might have hundreds or thousands of backlinks driving traffic to them instantly, so as soon as you catch it and put a site on it selling the same products that it was selling before it dropped, you are on to a winner from all the pre-existing traffic to that domain, that in itself would add some value to a name. |
Good point.
Buying names that used to be sites is often a wise move...
You can look up the history of domains / sites at places like Archive.org.