High authority expired domains
This page lists 3,163 expired domains with a Revised Score of 65 or more, the Strong and Elite bands of the directory. Each has expired, is available to register, and has referring domains that survived the original site going offline. Names are masked until you reveal them on Free, Starter and Pro; Business shows every name. Every metric is open.
About this list
Revised Score blends link-graph centrality, referring domains and site history into one 0 to 100 grade, computed across the whole directory. Referring domains are counted from our own web crawl, not from a paid link index. Site history comes from archived captures: the archived snapshot count and the span of years the site was captured. Availability is re-checked against the live DNS root over DNS-over-HTTPS, and a listing that turns out to be registered is removed. The backlink count is shown as a band beside the score.
A high score is a starting point, not a verdict. The listing shows the named linking sources and the site history so you can tell a domain with links from a university and a national newspaper apart from one with the same count from directories. Browse the featured order here, or use the filters to pivot into the full directory. Search, filters and sort are free, signed in or not.
At a glance
Cite as: “High authority expired domains”, Revised, https://getrevised.com/market/domains/authority. Last updated 20 October 2026. Updated continuously; names stay masked until reveal, except on Business.
As of 20 October 2026, the Revised directory of high authority expired domains holds 3,164 listings, each with a Revised Score of 65 or more. All have expired and are available to register. The median listing has 50 to 100 referring domains, and 52 have 250 or more. Spam-flagged names are filtered out, and 3,164 (100%) had availability re-checked within 30 days. The list spans 124 top-level domains, led by .com, .org and .net. Referring domains come from our own web crawl. Names are masked until reveal on Free, Starter and Pro; Business shows every name; metrics are public. Search and filters need no account; the free plan reveals 5 masked names a month.
- Listings
- 3,164
- Median ref. domains
- 50 to 100
- Named sources
- 3,164 (100%)
- Re-checked, 30 days
- 3,164 (100%)
- Last updated
- 20 Oct 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What counts as a high authority domain?
- A high authority domain is one that many other sites link to, from places that are themselves well linked. Revised Score estimates this from our web crawl, blended with referring domain count and site history, and grades it 0 to 100. On this page every listing scores 65 or higher, which is the Strong band and above.
- How do I know a high authority domain is not spam?
- Check who the referring domains are, not just how many there are. A domain with links from an encyclopedia, a university and a news organization has authority that is hard to fake. A domain with the same count from link farms does not. Every listing names its notable linking sources and shows the site history, so a high score with thin history stands out before you reveal it.
- Do the backlinks still count after the domain expires?
- The links themselves stay live for as long as the linking pages stay up, and they resolve to whatever is at the domain now. Whether a search engine keeps counting them depends on what you build. Google's expired domain abuse policy targets expired domains repurposed to host unrelated content. A site that continues the old domain's subject keeps its links; a site that changes subject entirely should not expect to.
