If the domain name was used for scams in the past, how can you recover the trust of your domain?

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June 30, 2016, 1:23 pm

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If the domain name was used for scams in the past, how can you recover the trust of your domain?

Say you bought a website that was actually scamming people a couple years back. However, upon registering for the domain name you never bothered to check the previous history of the domain. Once you registered the domain, you begin to perform SEO and noticed the website existed before.

Not only did the website exist before, the website was actually created to scam people. Since the website is now a legitimate business, and it doesn't scam, is there any possible way to recover the trust of the domain? Can you try and contact scam directory website owners, and inform them that the domain was repurchased and legitimate?

Has anyone ever ran into this problem before?

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Lynne

No I've never run into this problem before. I think if I did I would dump that domain and start fresh. I wouldn't want to be associated with that scam or anything dodgy!

8 years ago

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MasterA

No, thankfully, this has never happened to me before. If you haven’t invested much money into your SEO, then I would recommend you change the domain as even if you contact scam directories to remove those reports, you may still have articles or negative reviews lying around on the internet and this will harm your business. If you have invested a lot of money already, then your best bet is to start to build a good reputation and make sure that you make it clear that the scams were not done by you. However, if possible, changing the domain is my recommendation.

8 years ago

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overcast

If domain once gets known for the scam, spam and other illegal things. You have to move to other domains. And make sure that you are not getting it. The reason being making the domain score positive will take years. And till then you are going to have the domain in the negative.And that's something you have to be seriously thinking about in terms of the conversion. And make sure to take the decisions in that case. Don't invest into such domains.

7 years ago

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Corzhens

That is the issue when buying a used domain. You have to do a thorough research about the use of the domain before. If there is an indication that it was used for evil ways like scamming or spamming then treat it as a hot potato, so to speak. Why re-use a domain with a bad reputation? Unless the domain name means life and death to you then you can choose for another domain.

6 years ago

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If the domain name was used for scams in the past, how can you recover the trust of your domain?

If the domain name was used for scams in the past, how can you recover the trust of your domain?

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