Is this domain penalized?

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I'm talking with the owner of codhq.com about purchasing the domain for a for-fun site. He claims that the domain is not penalized, however I have my doubts.

It has about 7,000 links, lots of which are foreign links and even a few from adult sites. It does not appear to be indexed in google (though there are no actual pages up on the site, but even googling codhq.com returns nothing), and it doesn't appear to have a robots.txt file (which could otherwise have been what was preventing it form being indexed).

So is this a domain that I should just write-off and avoid or is there something I'm missing here?
 


Here is the response he sent when I approached him about no pages being indexed...

to my knowledge, there are no "penalties" on the domain. I don't even know what that means. It's always had legitimate content, and used to have a Pagerank of 6. There'd be no reason for it to be "penalized".

I think your understanding of how smart Google's indexing is flawed. If a page hasn't been online in years, I'm quite certain Google will suppress its index weighting.
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Does a site show up in google's index even if there is nothing to index? If you go to the site you'll see that it just returns a page not found error, there are no actual files or pages on the site currently. If that's the case, should I still be able to google the exact domain and get a result?
 
If you're still interested in it and that guy is serious about selling, have him put a blank page up (just a page title, h1, and some lorem ipsum is fine) to see if that gets indexed.
 
I wouldn't buy this domain. It has had 13 unique registrations over 7 years and is still not indexed. Doesn't seem right. When I am building a site to obtain organic traffic, I would want to be 100% certain that it is not black marked at Google. With even clean domains being quite difficult to rank these days, there is no way I would gamble with an unknown domain that is not even indexed.
 
If you are willing to work on the domain content and backlink profile you can pull a delisted domain out of the can. That said, it would be easier to use a different domain, but hey - if you really want it you can fix it. I have done this with many in the past and just recently brought a domain back from the dead. This was post-Penguin - so it's still possible.
 
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