Multiple Domains

[ccd1]

How many of you have multiple domains for the same domain?

ie: www.thissite.com

Becomes?

www.thissite.com
www.thissite.org
www.thissite.net
www.this-site.com
www.this-site.org
www.this-site.net

I don't know why, but I'm about to do this with all my domains.

[DirectPixel]

I don't...

Personally, my thinking is that unless your site is very large or popular, there's no need, and it's just a waste of money, since who on earth would want to copy the domain of some small unknown site?:p

[Jake Bunce]

my main domain - macsubculture.com

i own the .net and .org versions of my main domain. i also have my old domain, mac-gamer.com, parked on my site.

[Paul J]

It's a good idea.

[ehjay]

Originally posted by Jakeman
my main domain - macsubculture.com

i own the .net and .org versions of my main domain. i also have my old domain, mac-gamer.com, parked on my site.
i still type mac-gamer.com/forum to get to yer forums, jake. ;)

[Jake Bunce]

it's going to expire in 529 days. better change your bookmarks before then. ;)

[mjames]

I own http://www.sportscentralboards.com which directs to my actual site on my main domain, sports-central.org. My thinking is two-fold: one, if I ever need to separate the two sites because of bandwidth or whatever, I have the domain to do so. Secondly, it is an easy-to-remember name for my members. I use MyDomain.com to do the redirecting.

[ehjay]

Originally posted by Jakeman
it's going to expire in 529 days. better change your bookmarks before then. ;)
eek! but.. mac-gamer is priceless, how can you let it expire? :p

[afterlab]

'Sho do. I use http://www.ffrforums.com which redirects to http://forums.ffrepublic.com.

I also purchased http://www.ffrepublic.net, and http://www.ffrepublic.org, which redirect to http://www.ffrepublic.com.

I got the domains for about 15 dollars for an entire year, by the way. ;)

They also randomly work.. :(

[ccd1]

I used to get mine for $13.50 at 000Domains but am now switching to $8.95 at GoDaddy!

[zachb]

I own the .net and .com of sfpunk, but they are two different projects.

[ccd1]

Oh, so you own them.

[leadZERO]

Heh, I still haven't been able to convince myself to use a new domain registrar. I liked it better when InterNIC was it... 'ol rs.internic.net. I have just stayed with Network Solution out of conveniece.

[Chen]

Currently for vBulletin.org I own vbhacks.com (the original name), vbhackers.com, and vbhackers.org (thanks to SaintDog). vbulletin.org itself is not mine, but Stallion's (the owner of the old site), and then I have vbhacks.net pointing at us (because someone registered and has no use for it). I think that's is... :)

But usually this "trick" is done by big companies, that don't want to lose customers that accidentally misspel their names. Or in case the name can be both singular and plural (for example SPF, which has both sitepointforum.com and sitepointforums.com).

[ccd1]

Try misspelling google or yahoo a few times.

[Chen]

Originally posted by baragon0
Try misspelling google or yahoo a few times.
Exactly. Both great examples, with the "oo". www.gogle.com or www.gooogle.com will both get you there.

[Skeptical]

I used to own yahhoo.com for about 2 years, until I lost interest (it was for fun initially) and stopped renewing it. It was getting thousands of unique hits per day and hundreds of emails per day.

Now it's a pr0n site. :(

[ccd1]

I think I know that girl.