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We should avoid words and concepts which places the blame unfairly on mostly powerless individuals.

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"Haunted" is actually a pretty good descriptor.

Something terrible happened here in the past.

The intangible spirts from this terrible event remain.

The new owner discovers his pictures scream at him and his closet constantly fills up with blood.

The fault, ultimately, belongs with the one who did the terrible deed.

blacklisted would be a good description as well.

Blacklist is too concrete.

With some domains, you merely will find a higher % of your emails land in spam, or your content ranks a bit worse, etc.

There's a somewhat random continuum. Haunting is a funny word that does sort of include some variability.

Maybe, but it's not "blacklisted" per se. You can go to the URL and do whatever.

It's not getting SEO blessings, true, but it's not disappeared.

Domains aren't individuals. Owners of domains aren't necessarily individuals either.

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