Also called registration age
Domain age, explained
Age is easy to read and easy to misread. An old creation date shows the name has not been deleted since that date, but not who held it: a name can change owners many times while its creation date stays the same. Sellers market aged domains for search value, but the practical view is that a name's history and the links pointing to it matter, not the date itself. Check the Wayback Machine and the backlink profile before paying extra for age.
In a trademark dispute, age helps only on the right facts. WIPO panels generally find no bad faith when a name was registered before the complainant's trademark rights existed, but they look at the date the current owner acquired the name, not the original creation date. Buying an old name after a brand became known does not inherit the earlier date, so keep records of when and how you acquired each name.
Example. A buyer pays more for a name created in the 1990s only after confirming its history is clean and its backlinks come from real sites.
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