I just found this recent thread on this topic, specifically related to Google penalties on domains that expired. http://www.seroundtable.com/google-old-penalti

I just found this recent thread on this topic, specifically related to Google penalties on domains that expired. http://www.seroundtable.com/google-old-penalties-expired-domain-17883.html http://www.seroundtable.com/google-old-penalties-expired-dom... It seems like old bad links can hurt an expired domains rankings.