Bill Hartzer

Have a domain name that's a personal site, private, hobby, or family website? Then best if you transfer your domain name away from GoDaddy. At the end of Section 1 of GoDaddy's Terms of Service, it states that its services “are not intended for private, personal or household use.” A prominent domain attorney is advising that you move it from GoDaddy if your domain name is used for a personal site, private, hobby, or family website.

GoDaddy’s New Terms Quietly Reclassify Personal Domain Owners as Businesses

GoDaddy’s New Terms Quietly Reclassify Personal Domain Owners as Businesses - Bill Hartzer GoDaddy’s updated terms say its services aren’t for personal use, raising concerns about privacy, arbitration, and domain ownership rights.

Expired domain names don’t get indexed quickly because they have “authority.” They get indexed quickly because Google can rediscover them. In a recent indexing test, the domains that showed up fast shared one trait: real crawl pathways still existed in Google’s link graph.

-- Prioritize unique referring domains over total backlink count.
-- Look for link diversity (many sites, many sources), not link concentration.
-- Favor contextual, topic-relevant links that still appear to be on active pages.
-- Use trust/quality metrics as a filter, not the decision-maker.
-- Ignore nofollow ratios as a primary predictor of indexing speed.
-- Always validate with a live test: publish a page and wait for reality.

More details in my latest post:

How to Evaluate Expired Domain Names for Faster Google Indexing - Hartzer Consulting Learn what backlink signals help expired domain names get indexed quickly by Google, plus a practical checklist you can use before you buy.