Hugh - It is the difference in perception and reality.
The sites are not truly illegitimate, whether Google perceives them to be or not. Many scammers on the www will only spend the money to register a domain for a year so a lot of us who are careful will do a look up on a domain with which we are considering doing business and decide not to plunk down our money if it is a new reg, we have never heard of it, and it is a short-term reg. A legitimate business will be more prone to registering for a longer term to insure that it is able to KEEP a domain. Looks like big brother (Google in this case) has decided to protect us. A scammer can get online with his own web site for a pittance. Register a throw-away domain at Yahoo for US$2.99/year during one of their sales and host it for US$5.00 per YEAR at one of the no-frills hosts and you are in business... FWIW, I have a half dozen domains I renew on a yearly basis and while I personally have occasionally been referred to as illegitimate in the vernacular, none of my sites have been! ;) For a private site for which you don't really care how high you rank with search engines, it should make no difference at all. - Bill Hatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hugh Gundersen Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 05:32 To: [email protected] Subject: [WINHOME] Is this true ? 1 year domains listed as illegal by google Hi guys Just had this from a company I use to register my domains..... By registering or renewing domains for only a year at a time your website is at risk of being identified as illegitimate or as a source of spam by the internetÂ’s leading search engines. Google has stated that domains registered for only one year are seen as illegitimate, risky sites that are downgraded in their search results. -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
