A Quora.com user is possibly confused and posed a question on the Q & A network if aged domains get better search engine rankings in Bing.com, Google.com and YaHoO.com:
Answer: Domain aging: When you purchase a domain name at first, you have no clue that “aging domains” do play a factor in a blog or website’s search engine rankings SEO. In addition to “domain aging” playing a factor in getting better search engine rankings in Google and Yahoo, keeping your site inundated with fresh content also plays a factor in staying one step ahead of your niche blogging competition. You can blog a few sentences on a new domain name and expect to get good search engine rankings in a years time.
The good thing to know about domain aging is as he gets older, it automatically improves in search engine results pages. But to achieve getting better search engine rankings with an aged domain, not only do you have to keep your site regularly updated with fresh content through consistent content marketing, but you also have to add what’s called an “SSL certificate,” in addition to implying “HSTS” to your domain. In SSL certificate will ensure people that anything they purchase from your blog or website has strict protection, whereas HSTS “hyper strict transport security” adds an extra pad of protection on your domain. People will notice you have an SSL certificate added to your domain when they see the green padlock located in the upper flush left hand corner of their Google Chrome browser. If your site doesn’t have an SSL certificate, the indicator in the upper flush left hand corner of the Google Chrome browser will be in red letters that says “not secure.”
Domain age definitely plays a ranking factor in search engines. That’s an absolute given. If you don’t yet have HSTS on your domain which may also help boost search engine rankings in addition to adding an SSL certificate, consult with your web hosting provider for more information on how you can have HSTS added to your domain. That also boosts your search engine rankings along with adding the SSL certificate. Even if you don’t add HSTS to your domain, the SSL certificate alone will boost rankings in Bing, Google & YaHoO!.