Questions about the Sandbox and 301 Redirects

[SDSLaw]

Does the sandbox still exist?  What if you have a brand new URL and do a 301 redirect from another website because the name of the service business changed?

Thanks for any insight and help.

[Chris.Menke]

You don't need to use the word "sandbox" but there may be a delay in indexing the redirected content based on how often your original site gets crawled. (The redirects that went into effect when seomoz changed to moz, for example seemed to happen right away, for example. others might take a month or more.

In your case, it sounds like you're moving from one domain to another?  If that's the case, then the redirect should be reflected in Google's search results as soon as the original domain is recrawled.