Reply To: I started a blog in 2015 before Google had their own Material Design website. It hit 100k/mo, I sold it, the buyer vanished. I just got the domain back.

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that’s a genuinely rare situation – DA 45-50, 11-year-old domain, organic links from Engadget and Smashing Magazine, and you still have the original content and theme. Most people hunting expired domains would kill for this.

My honest take: don’t sell it cold. A domain with that history but no live site gets maybe $2-5k on Flippa or Sedo. Restore it for 30-60 days, republish the content, fix broken links, let Google re-crawl it and you’re looking at a completely different conversation. The authority is still there, it just needs a pulse.