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Ask HN: thinking about buying a website, what would you investigate?
Via a friend I've found a little website that is up for sale and I like it. All the obvious things have been checked and confirmed (legit, respected, traffic is certified and so forth).
I've also started looking into the SW itself (a sort of heavily customised drupal but no changes in core files so not a fork).
What else would you investigate? Not so much from a business point of view but from... any other point of view :)
Cheers
- paulhauggis 15y agocheck to see if the domain has been blacklisted anywhere like maybe spamhaus or something similar.
- Zuz 15y agothanks, had not thought of that
- mrkmcknz 15y agoThe people selling it, basic due dilligence really. Of course it totally matters what the website is...
- Zuz 15y agothanks, that's all done and fine
- arb99 15y agocheck domain history on archive.org check info:domain.com in google actually returns the site (if people are selling a site and faking the pagerank (some do...) or site index, a info:domain.com won't show the actual domain.
- Zuz 15y agothanks to you too. All done and all legit