Will domain registration changes ding me in Google?
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Domain registration changes and Google penalties
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hello we have a question from Scott Clark in Lexington Kentucky Scott says when you move a domain from one registar to another where your registrant information changes very slightly for example a new phone number will Google ding you for instability at the registar and my answer is no probably not um certainly people need to change their information sometimes they change registrars that's completely normal that's completely you know expected Behavior the only times that we try to really keep an eye on that is you know if we think someone as a spammer might be trying to buy someone's domain only for the links or you know buying an expired domain or something like that um but there's plenty of times we know when you're switching to a new address you're switching to a new phone number uh where it does make complete sense that all that information does need a change so we try to be very smart about it and uh you should never see any differences if you're just a regular person and the hope is you know if uh if you're trying to do something sneaky or spammy then we might pay a little bit of a closer eye but in the typical case I really wouldn't worry about it
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Scott Clark from Lexington, KY asks:
"When you move a domain from one registrar to another or your registrant information changes very slightly (e.g. new phone number), will Google ding you for instability at the registrar?"
Recorded on April 23, 2009.
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