Every domain here was pulled from the drop, checked, and listed with its real numbers. You see the Domain Rating, the backlinks, the referring domains, the age and the asking price before you spend a cent.
Membership $24.50/mo billed yearly, or $49/mo. One listing unlocked free when you open an account.
| Domain | DR | Backlinks | Ref. domains | Age | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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cus*****nce.io
Technology
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51 | 214 | 164 | 12 years | $4,999 |
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por*****hub.io
Premium SEO domain
|
42 | 626 | 228 | 7 years | $3,900 |
The short answer
A high DA domain is an expired or aged domain whose backlink profile is strong enough that Google already treats the name as established. You buy one to skip the first year of link building. The safe way to buy is to look at the live backlink report, not the authority score: Domain Authority and Domain Rating can both be inflated with cheap links in a weekend.
SEODomain lists a small number of hand-checked high authority domains at a time. Each listing carries its Ahrefs report, its referring domains, the year it was first registered and the asking price. Membership costs $24.50 a month billed yearly and reveals the names, the full reports and a direct purchase link.
Last updated September 2026.
The listings above are the high authority domains in the catalogue at this moment. Domain Rating, backlinks, referring domains, first registration year and the asking price are all public. Only the name is masked, because an unmasked shortlist is a shortlist anyone can take and go and register somewhere else before the buyer who paid for it gets there.
The list is deliberately short. Names go on it when they pass the checks, not when the page starts looking sparse, so an empty week is an empty table rather than filler. Members get an e-mail the hour a new domain is added, which is the practical reason most people keep the membership running between purchases.
Domain Authority is Moz's 0 to 100 prediction of how easily a site should rank. Domain Rating is the Ahrefs equivalent and is built on the backlink graph. Neither is a Google metric. Google has never confirmed using either one, and both are calculated from links that anybody can buy. That is the part most listings leave out.
In practice, buyers in competitive niches look for DA or DR 30 and up. Local and small business sites do fine in the 20s. Anything above 50 on an expired domain is worth a second look rather than a quick click, because a score that high on a name nobody renewed usually means either a genuinely large old site or a profile someone inflated on purpose.
The numbers that actually predict whether the domain will work for you are underneath the score. How many separate referring domains point at it, whether those sites are real publications or link farms, how long the name has been registered, and whether the anchor text reads like a normal site or like a pharmacy spam run. All of that is on the Ahrefs report attached to each listing.
Where most buyers in competitive niches start looking. Below that you are usually paying for age, not authority.
One link from 200 different sites beats 20,000 links from four. The listing shows both counts separately.
The year the name was first registered, not the year it dropped. Age without links is worth very little on its own.
DR, backlinks, referring domains, first registration year and the asking price are public on every listing. Only the name is masked.
Membership reveals the full name, the complete Ahrefs report and the direct purchase link. Opening an account unlocks one listing free so you can check the quality first.
The domain itself is bought separately, at the price shown, from the registrar or broker holding it. Members can also send an offer instead of paying the asking price.
We are not the cheapest way to find an expired domain and we do not have the biggest list. Here is what each option actually gives you, including where the others win.
| Option | What it costs | Who checks the domain | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEODomain | $24.50/mo billed yearly, or $49/mo. The domain is paid separately at the listed price. | We do, before listing. Small catalogue by design. | Buyers who want a short vetted shortlist and the Ahrefs report handed over, not a database to filter. |
| DomCop | Paid subscription to the database. | You do. It supplies filters and metrics on millions of dropped names. | People who enjoy filtering and have time to vet dozens of candidates a week. |
| ExpiredDomains.net | Free account. | Nobody. It is a raw drop list. | The cheapest option, if your own time is free and you already know what a burned profile looks like. |
| GoDaddy Auctions | Small yearly membership, then you bid. | Nobody. Bidders set the price. | Volume buyers who are comfortable bidding and losing. |
| Odys Global | No membership. Domains listed from roughly $300 upward. | They do. Over a thousand vetted names. | Buyers who want the largest curated selection and will pay the listed marketplace price. |
Competitor prices change. Figures here were checked in September 2026. See the full Odys Global alternative comparison and the SpamZilla alternative breakdown.
A vetted expired domain with DR or DA in the 30s and a clean backlink profile usually sells for somewhere between a few hundred and a few thousand dollars. Names above DR 50, or names in finance, insurance and crypto, run higher. The price on each of our listings is the asking price, so there is no bidding to guess at.
They are worth it when the authority is real and the history is clean, because you inherit links that would otherwise take a year and a link building budget to earn. They are worth nothing when the score was inflated with purchased links or the site was penalised. That is the difference the backlink report tells you and the score does not.
DA or DR 30 and above is the usual floor for a competitive niche. For a local business or a small affiliate build, 20 to 30 is plenty and costs far less. What matters more than the number is how many separate referring domains sit behind it and whether those sites are real.
Buying an expired domain is not against Google's guidelines. What gets sites into trouble is what people do afterwards: rebuilding a spam network, redirecting an unrelated domain at a money site purely for the links, or reviving content that was penalised in the first place. Check the archive history and the anchor text before you commit.
Yes, with a narrower margin than a few years ago. An aged domain with genuine editorial links still gets crawled faster and ranks a new site sooner than a name registered this morning. What no longer works is treating authority as a substitute for content. The domain buys you a head start, not a finished site.
Safely means you can see the backlink report before you pay and the seller is not hiding the anchor text. Any marketplace that shows you only a score and a price is asking you to trust the score. We publish the metrics on the open listing and hand over the full Ahrefs report the moment you unlock the name.
DA is Moz's score and DR is Ahrefs'. Both run 0 to 100, both are built from backlinks, and both belong to the tool vendor rather than to Google. Our listings show Domain Rating because the report attached to every domain is an Ahrefs report, so the number you see and the report you get come from the same place.
Open an account and you can reveal one listing and send one offer without paying. If the quality is what you expected, membership is $24.50 a month billed yearly.
Also worth reading: buy aged domains, expired domains with traffic, where to buy expired domains and how the marketplace works.