Multiple Domains for Your Website Design
When you first get your website design and get a domain name for it you rarely think to the other domain name extensions. For instance if you register www.example.com you do not think of .co, .co.uk and .ie when you have the website up and running and you are looking happily at the end product. In fact there is nothing stopping some other person registering the other domain names either without knowing or just to retain it and possibly try and get a larger fee from you for the site. This is the secret of websites that stand the test of time as I blogged about recently.
The cost of registering a domain is relatively modest in the larger scale of things. You do not even have to put content onto it and many people just redirect the site to their main domain and then pay the fee every year in the comfort of knowing that their brand name is safe and won’t be taken by someone else.
I am a fan of multiple domains for this obvious reason and recently I actually practiced what I preached by registering several domains of my own that I had neglected to do over the past year. I am now keeping these domains for different reasons but even if time does not permit for me to optimize them to the best design I can at least be rest assured that they are mine.
At the moment they are sitting idle and I have no plans to put unique country specific content on them but as I said above I do not have to worry about them being taken.
Other Brand Names
If your product name is unique it also doesn’t hurt to register related product domain names to help ring fence the product catalogue that you have. The overall cost for registering 7-8 domain names may be in the 100-150 Euro area but it is a sensible and sound investment and one that you will be glad you made.
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We redirect most of ours to our main site or to a specific subpage of it.
The exception to that would be blacknight.mobi, which goes to a mobile site with different content
For my personal domains – most of them redirect to michele.me, while michele.ie is a “lifestream” site