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3xmedia, domain age is NOT based on continuous registration. It's a misconception. What matters is how long the site has been indexed in Google and when Google first saw links going to that site. Registration may have an impact on rankings, but the history and authority of the site still exists and does not change. Check out this quote from CreativeIM:
"It’s worth noting that domain age isn’t referring just to how long you have owned a given domain name, but instead how long it has been since Google first indexed that domain, or saw a link to the domain. Because of this many companies purchase “aged” domains that have been around for a while for the extra bit of Google oomph. Of course just because a domain has been registered for 10 years doesn’t mean that Google considers it 10 years old — it has to have actually had a site indexed by Google.
In other words a domain that’s been registered for 10 years but has no actual site up, or nothing that Google has ever found, is the same as a domain that you bought yesterday."
Google has found this domain, and they found it in 2001, which validates its age.
And yes, I registered it yesterday and now I'm reselling it. That's not a horrible thing. It's called business.
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