Hi Guys,
I've built a method of finding hundreds of expired .ie domains all of which have a PR of 5+. The problem is, when you register each one with the IEDR you need official ID which is fine, but for building a blog network, thats one obvious footprint screaming out to Google. Is there a way of registering a .ie domain without having the same owner details for every domain?
Let's assume for a moment that you can prove entitlement to each of these .ie domain names (after the Eubrowser cybersquatting efforts a few years ago, IEDR might be paying more attention to bulk registrations). The real problem that you have is that your proposed blog network would stand out like a sore thumb even to the relatively unsophisticated anti-spam efforts of Google. It uses a combination of methods, not limited to the somewhat unreliable WHOIS data, to detect such networks. Google also may zero PR when a domain name drops.
To a search engine developer (people who build search engines rather than people who just do SEO), a change of ownership on a site is actually quite apparent. Now to the average web developer, there may not be much difference but simple things like directory structure, word frequencies and distances, webserver, webserver IP, webserver IP ownership, outbound links and inbound links may change. What may go completely unnoticed by SEOs and web developers is the change at analytics level if Google Analytics was being used (and it is the most common analytics package).
The other aspect is that the Irish web is unusual in terms of interlinking. SEO is comparatively rare and interlinking at index page level is not as common as it once was.
Regards...jmcc