Is it possible to avoid redirect of penalties for 301 forwards?

[petersocapro]

We have been doing a good amount of competitive research lately and have noticed sites that have been changing their TTLD quite often to escape manual penalties / DCMA filings. An example evolution:

brandterm.com -> brandterm.bz -> brandterm.me

These competitors are able to quickly rank for money keywords in the top 3 soon after another domain switch. What we have noticed is that while its obvious they received Google penalties they continue to 301 redirect the old domains to the new ones. We have experienced first hand that penalties travel along domains with 301 redirects.

Does anyone have an explanation how these companies are able to achieve quickly high volume of organic search while 301-redirecting from burnt domains?

The only option I see is to disavow all previous domains in GWT to be able to employ 301 redirects without risking carrying over the penalty. Are there other theories ppl can think of?

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[DennisSeymour]

From my experience, not all penalized sites get their penalties passed. It could also depend what penalty it was.

My best guess for this issue is that they might also be using a lot of other non penalized 301's that already have good standings.

[petersocapro]

Can you elaborate more on your experience on certain penalties being passed vs being ignored? Would like to hear more.

To your second point, if I understand you properly your are saying that a domain with authority may be able to counteract a passed penalty? If so, that case would not apply in this scenario as the new domain started from scratch and had to build up authority. However, the domain ranked pretty much from the first month.