domains banned in search engines

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I need to know how to locate domain names that have been banned from yahoo and other engines due to spam, I dont want to reg. a expired domain name and then find out it is banned from search engines.

Any help in this matter would be great, please include links if you can.

thanks
Brandon

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AFAIK there is no tool or online program that will tell you this. You could try http://www.archive.org to see if a domain has previously had a site on and then you can think if it's worth the risk or not.

If you do buy a domain and you think that it may have been banned for some reason you could drop a line to the SEs saying you have just bought it and ask them to lift any ban that's in place.

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