And sadly, a year later I check the site and it's still a PR5 with the same spammy links. Very interesting. Buying up expired domains with existing PR isn't a new tactic by any stretch, but, like you I'm morbidly curious as to how they managed to procure control of that old blog. Maybe by following broken links from existing web pages and found that the subdomain was available?
Just goes to show there's no limit to the lengths that spammers will go to try and beat the "system".
And sadly, a year later I check the site and it's still a PR5 with the same spammy links. Very interesting. Buying up expired domains with existing PR isn't a new tactic by any stretch, but, like you I'm morbidly curious as to how they managed to procure control of that old blog. Maybe by following broken links from existing web pages and found that the subdomain was available?
Just goes to show there's no limit to the lengths that spammers will go to try and beat the "system".