Our Goal in this task:

Find domains that used to be real sites, with content that can be retrieved and have clean history.

Steps to quality check a domain name:

1. Archive.org – check what used to be on the domain in the past.

a. Check the domain in several points of time and make sure this domain was a real site and
not a site that was used by spammers. For example: whenever you see Chinese/Japanese
you can disqualify the domain right away.
b. To meet the specifications, every site must have a unique design.
Examples of non-unique design: (usually a plain site with bullet points and no graphic logo).
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c. Every domain must have at least 5 pages of retrievable content in archive.org.

Retrievable Content = words / photos / pdf.
To see how many pages there are in archive.org, paste the following into you address bar:
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://domain.com/*
(And replace domain.com with the domain you need to search for). This will take you to a
list of all the pages archive.org has ever crawled in that site.
2. http://www.domaintools.com/research/screenshot-history/ - Check previous screenshots of
the domain, to see what was on it in the past. Make sure to enter the root domain without
www or http://. For example: domain.com
a. Check and see if the domain expired and then re-purchased in order to abuse the domain.
Examples:

b. If the domain expired and was then kept by the registrar, you will see pages like the following:
 This is OK.

c. If the latest archive.org entry of a domain is from 2007 or earlier and you don’t have data after
2007 of the domain in domaintools.com, write a comment next to the domain.

1. Fill in the report in the Dropbox shared folder, like shown below:

- Column A – the domain to be QA’d. If disqualified, mark in red.

- Column B – your comment after the domain has been QA’d.
- Column C – for the company’s internal usage.
- Column D – provide link to support your comment on column B. If the site was spammed,
paste a link in column D that shows the spammed page.
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