112 expired domains with .edu backlinks from US universities, verified in the Common Crawl web graph. Age and availability checked. Browse free.
This page lists 112 expired domains with .edu backlinks. Each has expired, is available to register, and has at least one referring domain from a university that survived the original site going offline. Names are masked until you reveal them. Every metric is open.
The university link is found, not claimed. Referring domains are counted from the Common Crawl web graph, a public crawl of the web, not from a paid link index. The referring domain is matched by name against the universities the directory tracks, and a listing is on this page only while at least one of those links is in the graph. Availability is re-checked against the live DNS root over DNS-over-HTTPS, and a listing that turns out to be registered is removed. History comes from the Internet Archive: the Wayback Machine snapshot count and the span of years the site was captured. Revised Score blends link-graph centrality, referring domains and archive history into one 0 to 100 grade, computed across the whole directory.
A .edu link is rare in the directory, about one listing in a hundred, because a university cites a site only when someone there judged it useful. That says nothing about the site's topic, so read the link beside the category, the archive history, the referring domain band and the Revised Score. The individual university pages under the source index show the same listings one institution at a time. Sort and filter within the set with a Pro plan, or browse the featured order for free.
Cornell University
UC Davis
UNC Chapel Hill
Harvard University
University of ArizonaCornell University
United NationsCornell UniversityUnited Nations
Columbia University
The Age
Stanford UniversityCornell UniversityUnited Nations
Yale UniversityColumbia University
FCC
Wikipedia
University of Michigan
Ohio State University
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Carnegie Mellon UniversityA link from a page on a university's .edu domain. Only accredited US postsecondary institutions can register .edu, so the registrant behind the link is always a real institution. The link itself is usually on a library resource list, a department page, a course page or a research citation, placed by a librarian, a faculty member or a member of staff. That editorial decision is what makes the link worth having.
Browse this page. Every listing has at least one referring domain from a tracked university in the Common Crawl web graph, has expired, and is available to register. The names are masked and the metrics are open. Reveal a listing to get its name, then register it at any registrar. The individual university pages under the source index show the same listings one institution at a time.
No more than a link from any other strong site. Google has said there is no TLD bonus. What a university link carries is the authority of the linking site and the fact that it is hard to obtain. The link stays in place as long as the linking page does, and it resolves to whatever is at the domain now. Google's site reputation abuse policy targets expired domains repurposed for unrelated content, so a site that continues the old domain's subject keeps the benefit and one that changes subject should not expect to.
No. Revised is a directory of expired domains that are available to register, with their metrics verified. We do not hold, sell or register domains, and we do not sell or place links. When you reveal a listing you get the name and its metrics, and you register it yourself at any registrar. Buying or placing links on university sites is against Google's link spam policy and against the policies of the institutions.
