Ask HN: thinking about buying a website, what would you investigate?

4 points by Zuz 14y ago ↗ HN

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

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paulhauggis 14y ago ↗

check to see if the domain has been blacklisted anywhere like maybe spamhaus or something similar.

Zuz 14y ago ↗

thanks, had not thought of that

mrkmcknz 14y ago ↗

The people selling it, basic due dilligence really. Of course it totally matters what the website is...

Zuz 14y ago ↗

thanks, that's all done and fine

arb99 14y ago ↗

check 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 14y ago ↗

thanks to you too. All done and all legit