Expired domain - re-instated

I used to be involved with a website a while ago it was a well linked to and informative site, turn out the guy tried to sell the site but didn't and he let the domain expire.
Recently I have negotiated to buy the domain name and agreed to buy all content/design from the original owner.

Now within the next 2 months I will have the existing website back together as it was,, apart from the fact that Google will now disregard all back links of which there were hundreds.

Is it worth emailing Google and asking for any penalty to be waived as its the original site just new owner? Could anyone PM me or tell me what email address to use.
Failing any joy from that do the links ever resolve to be counted by Google in the passage of time or is this really just starting from scratch again, I know the history of the domain is clean and the content will be as it was before.

 

I've heard you need to wait 12 months for expired domains...I bought about 40 of them, many with DMOZ listings and backlinks, and I am in my 6 month....however, I am going to write Google soon about the domains that I bought, that were expired and had no backlinks, I've heard that if you write about those, they willl get reinstated...otherwise I think it's 12 months.

 

Well I guess I can just hope that I may be one of the lucky one's. The site has some superb content all written by doctors and experts in their field and it was doing well a year ago. Should I maybe get the site back up and leave it a few months before approaching google , I guess you only get one shot at asking them to be kind.

If there was an 6-12 month exclusion would the backlinks then count I wonder?

 

Tough call.
I've watched domains that had backlinks get expired, and then all of the remaining backlinks get put onto a "Don't count as backlinks" list. So even though they still exist, google will discredit them.

I am not sure, but that was my experience.....anyone else have any experiences?