You were asking for input now you're being all defensive when people are providing it. And yes, this is the kind of domain you want for a PBN not just a fresh domain but that doesn't mean the price wasn't steep to the point where the extra price over similar expired domains outweighs the extra link juice benefits to your money site IMO.
You're building a PBN so you are better off buying multiple expired/dropped domains with slightly less age, slightly lower metrics/less link and not too worried about EMD/search traffic potential for the exact match search phrase (these are all factors that are much more important on your money page and thus drive the price of this domain up for people looking to buy it to build it as a money site/authority site which makes it overl expensive for a PBN domain).
You will get more juice to your money site and a better ranking on your money site if you spent the $250 on multiple domains that were very close to the same metrics and links and linked to your money page from all of them (maybe even as many as 10 PBN sites for that price or even your entire network of PBNs if you're finding these yourself and just paying the reg fee) than from this one PBN site on this domain for the same price. That's what we're trying to say.
You can register expired domains with similar metrics for $1.99 (or a little more than that), you don't have to buy them at auction as not every dropped domain is being held at auction many of them are available to just grab depending mostly on where they were registered through - some places don't hardly hold them at all after they are originally dropped and some will hold them but let you just buy them at reasonable rates and not via auction. I don't really do this myself as I'm happy to have someone else find them, check them and then pay them $20 or $40 for a good domain and save the time and effort. Its a good domain but, again, you could've gotten a similar dropped one for the registration fee if you know how to find them and you invest the time or you could pay a service provider who does that somewhere around $20-$50 depending on the provider and the exact metrics and links, etc. Here is an from a service provider on this forum:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...xpired-domains-private-bhw-special-price.html
If you were looking to build an authority site then yes it may have been worth it to spend more to get the added benefits of extra age, slightly better metrics (DA) and having an exact match for a highly traffic search term.
For a PBN though the link juice that you'd get instead from spending the same amount of money for multiple also quite good and nearly as good domains either by investing time and buying them at reg fee price or paying for a lower cost service will yield better results/a higher ranking for your money site for the same price. That's the point I'm trying to make.
Remember you're not looking to earn money on this domain, its not about traffic coming to it and outranking your competition, this is just one of many domains that make up your larger PBN - all of which combine to help it rank. You're looking at your money site so its about the overall link juice you can pass to it from all the domains in your PBN to rank it and how your total budget is best spent to accomplish that.
