Domain vetting · no hosting needed
Know what you are buying before you pay for the domain
An expired domain is worth what its history is worth. One report tells you who links to it and how spammy those links look, what the anchor texts say, the keywords and traffic it used to have, what the site actually was over the years, whether Google still has it, and when it was registered — ending in a plain verdict and a score out of 100 with every reason listed.
- No hosting plan needed
- Any domain, anywhere
- From $1.38 a report
- On screen and as a PDF
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A cheap domain with a bad past is the expensive one
Metrics on a sales list tell you how strong a domain looks. They do not tell you that its links are casino anchors from one owner’s network, that its traffic collapsed two years ago, that it spent 2019 as a pharmacy site in another language, or that Google has dropped it from the index altogether.
Those are exactly the things that decide whether the domain ever ranks for you. The vetting report goes and looks at all of them, in one place, in plain English — so a shortlist of five domains takes five minutes instead of an afternoon of guesswork.
What the report reads
Link profile and spam score
How many sites link to it, how many networks they sit on, how many links are broken, and a 0–100 spam score for the profile as a whole.
Referring domains over time
Month by month since 2019: steady growth, a slow bleed, or a sudden burst of hundreds of links — the shape of a bought profile.
Anchor texts
The words people used to link to it. Casino, pharma, loan or adult anchors, or a foreign script that does not match the site, are flagged with the share they hold.
Keywords and traffic
What it ranks for now, what it ranked for before, and estimated monthly visits over the past two years — so a collapse is impossible to miss.
Google index status
Whether Google still has pages of it at all. A domain with hundreds of links and nothing in the index is the classic sign of a penalty.
What the site used to be
Copies of its home page from the public web archive, year by year, with the titles it carried — a real estate blog, a parked page, or something you do not want your money site linked to.
Registration history
When it was registered, when it expires, when it last changed hands, and whether it is already in redemption and about to drop.
A score with its reasons
Every point taken off is one sentence you can check against the report below it. Nothing is a black box, and anything we could not read says so instead of guessing.
PDF to send on
Download the whole report as a PDF for a client, a partner or your own records. The figures are frozen as they were when it ran.
How it works
Type the domain
Or press “Vet this domain” on any listing in our aged-domain shop, or in an alert e-mail.
Wait about half a minute
We read the link data, the search data, Google, the registry and the public web archive at the same time.
Read the verdict
Looks clean, proceed with care, or high risk — with the reasons, the charts and the numbers behind them.
Buy it, or move on
Vet the next one on your shortlist. Reports are kept on your account so you can compare them side by side.
Pay per report, and only once per domain
Prices in US dollars, one-off. Credits never expire. Vetting the same domain again within two weeks costs nothing — you get the report you already have. Pay with PayPal (which also takes cards) or crypto. No hosting plan needed.
50 reports
- $1.38 per report
- For buyers and agencies
- Bulk: vet 25 domains at once
Buying an aged domain from us? One free report comes with every aged domain you buy in our shop — so you can vet the next one on your list at no cost.
No hosting needed
Domain vetting is sold on its own and works for any domain on the internet — one you found at an auction, one a broker sent you, or one from our own aged-domain shop. Create an account, choose “No hosting needed”, and it is in your menu straight away. If you do host with us, your reports sit beside your sites.
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Questions people ask
Do I need a hosting plan?
No. Domain vetting is sold on its own and works for any domain, whether or not you host anything with us.
What is the score based on?
The spam score of its link profile, the share of spam-niche and foreign-script anchor texts, how its referring domains grew or collapsed, its search traffic now against its peak, whether Google still indexes it, what the site used to be in the web archive, and its registration record. Every point taken off is shown as a sentence you can check.
Is a low score a reason not to buy?
It is a reason to look closely. Plenty of good domains score in the middle because one part of their history is messy. The report tells you which part, so you can decide instead of guessing.
How long does a report take?
Usually under a minute. A list of up to 25 domains runs in the background and we e-mail you when it is done.
Do credits expire?
No. They stay on your account until you use them, and running the same domain again within two weeks does not use another one.
Can I use it on domains from other sellers?
Yes — any domain at all, from any auction, broker or drop catcher.
Can I send the report to a client?
Yes. Every finished report downloads as a PDF with the verdict, the reasons and the numbers.
Check the history before you pay for it
From $1.38 a report, any domain, no hosting plan required.