Domain Names
Posted: Thu 26 January, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Own Business, Work-related |2 Comments »I’m sure I’ve written about this before (I just can’t be arsed to check right now), but I seem to have a strange talent for finding available domain names. For instance, the one I’m developing from home is such a great domain name I can’t believe it’s not been taken.
At work, they’re panicking (is that spelled right?) because they’ve discovered another company with the same name as the domain they were planning to use. Yeah, sure, it’s just the .de domain, but all the same, they’re a bit “Oh fuck” about it. So Yours Truly starts spodding around coming up with a few name concepts and so on.
Out of the 27 domain names I looked at, 17 were completely available ( by which I mean the .com, .co.uk, .net, .org, .biz and .info domains were available), with another 8 that only had one of the six taken (interestingly, normally the .org, for reasons unknown) Which makes for a pretty good hit-rate, all things considered.
Just out of curiosity when you’re using multiple domains for the one site do you just park them all or do you use a 301?
On my own stuff I tend to make sure that a 301 or other method of redirection is in operation.
At work, because we have direct control of the Apache webserver, we just make all of them point to the same place within Apache directives, so it’s transparent and doesn’t even need a 301.