Domains are hostnames that identify Internet Protocol (IP) resources such as web sites. They provide a human-friendly, easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources.
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Will having multiple domains improve my seo?
Lets say I have a domain already, for example www.automobile4u.com (not mine), with a website fully running and all.
The title of my "Website" says:
<title>Used cars - buy and sell your used ...
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Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name?
Both in terms of SEO and user friendliness, is it better to put hyphens in a multi-words domain name or not ?
For example, is www.stackoverflow.com better than www.stack-overflow.com ?
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How do I rename a domain and preserve PageRank?
As part of graduating from Area51 and becoming a full fledged site we sometimes change domain names from http://topic.stackexchange.com to http://example.com. Aside from the obvious 301 redirect rules ...
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Where is the line drawn with domain names which include a trademark?
A search on google for "iphone developer" turns up loads of websites which have "iphone" in them, a trademarked name by Apple.
So I'm led to believe that having a domain such as iphonedeveloper.com ...
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Who is a great domain registrar company?
I have used numerous domain registrars in the past, including Godaddy, 1&1, Host Monster, IX web Hosting, the list goes on. (not talking about hosting)
I currently use GoDaddy, however, I'm not ...
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Does server location or TLD affects SEO
I have heard(read) SEO experts who claims that you server position will affect your SEO. In the latest example it was about an international site targeting the Russian market so:
Does the server ...
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Purchasing a Domain from a Domain Squatter
A few years ago, I purchased a .org domain. Presumably, the .com version was taken by a domain squatter because it was registered the day after I registered it and it only hosts one of those typical ...
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How can I buy a domain that has already been registered?
I want to buy a domain name, but it has already been registered and I am unable to find any contact information for the owner on the site.
How can I contact the domain's owner to inquire about buying ...
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Should I include “www” in my canonical URLs? What are the pros and cons?
What are the pros and cons of having http://www.example.com/ vs http://example.com/?
For example a problem I'm aware of is that if I use a domain without www I can't set a cookie for the current ...
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Providing fake info during domain registration - does it matter?
As you are all most likely aware already all domain registrars ask for your personal information.
Such Personal Information Includes:
Forename and Surname
Address Information
Email Address
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Why isn't a newly purchased domain showing up in Google searches?
The domain ...
http://trello.com
... was purchased a few months ago and is now live as of a week or so ago -- and has been linked from several prominent places on the web -- but searching for the ...
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Why should I use a subdomain structure over a directory structure?
I want to do blog.mysite.com but i know it will negatively impact my PR with Google. When is it preferable to structure your site like that vs mysite.com/blog? Is it only for the benefit of PR?
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How important is the domain name for SEO
Most people advice to buy a domain name that exactly matches your main business field. For example if you sell computers the best one will probably be computers.com but with millions(maybe billions) ...
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Domain transfers - handling the downtime
This is something that has arisen several times and we don't quite know how to handle it, all suggestions are welcome!
We have a few different domains with other companies that we want to transfer to ...
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What is the best way to redirect my naked domain?
I have example.com, which points to web server using A records, I want to redirect all traffic from www.example.com to example.com.
As far as i know these are methods,
301 HTML redirect from www to ...
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What is domain “masking” or “cloaking”? Why should it be avoided for a new web site?
What exactly is the domain name "masking" or "cloaking" offered by some hosting companies, (as opposed to redirection), and what are the various reasons it should be avoided when setting up a new web ...
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when does a domain name really expire before someone else can register it
I've Googled but haven't really found an answer.
when does a domain name really expire before someone else can register it?
Is this set by the domain registrar?
I've seen someone mention 75, 30, ...
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How hard is to be the anonymous owner of a website?
I'd like to create a website with a very radical political message. It won't be unethical (encouraging violence, etc) but I feel the points I plan to list in it will definitely make me a lot of ...
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Subdomains vs. subdirectory – status as of 2012.
This following question by Jeff was in 2010 and I wanted to check how things have changed in the past 2 years.
My problem:
I run a site with most of the content distributed to subdomains that’s are ...
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How do you determine the monetary value of an established domain / website?
I have some domains that I've been building for the last few years and now I'd like to sell them. I tried several services (including Sedo) to try and ascertain just how much money each domain was ...
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What is the maximum number of DNS A-records you can use on one domain?
Is it correct that there is no limit to how many DNS A records can be set on a domain?
My boss asked me this and it made me curious, I can't find anything online.
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Having multiple domains on a single hosting server
Heads up: both domains are registered at GoDaddy and the shared hosting server is also at GoDaddy. I currently have a website at www.somesite.com. I also have another domain name www.mynewsite.com ...
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Is there a domain search tool on the web that works well?
I would like to search for all available domains ending with a particular word. The best tool I've found for this so far is domainsbot, but it doesn't seem to work as it should (it will only give you ...
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Domain or Subdomain: does the choice affect traffic?
If I run a blog or something in my subdomain like www.sub.name.net is it going to have any decreasing affect like decrease traffic through search engines or low ranking through on engines?
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Does registering a second domain name with the dashes help SEO?
If I have a site registered and running on ThisIssomething.com for example, does registering This-Is-Something.com and redirecting it actually help SEO? Or is it mainly to protect your brand?
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.CO Domains. Worthwhile? [closed]
So there is the new domain extension .co which was released recently.
What do you think of using this domain for a website? Is the upside of getting a decent name outweighed by the negatives? I ...
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SEO and multiple domains to same site
I have one website.
I have two domain names that I want to point to the same site install.
So whether you go to name-one.com or name-two.com you see the exact same site.
Now, I can either set up ...
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Where can I download list of all .com domains registered in the world [closed]
I just need registered .com domain names.
I know this list is available at:
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How to point a domain to another subdomain?
I'm really a newbie about this issues so excuse me if this is a rather dumb question, I'm trying to point a domain a client of mine bought to a sub-domain of mine, they're both from different ...
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Changing nameservers for a domain on GoDaddy
I am redoing a website for a friend of mine. The domain was purchased on GoDaddy. The hosting was purchased elsewhere. After having problems with the hosting company and making some updates I decided ...
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301 redirect and page ranking
Say I have a site 123example.com, with roughly 100 backlinks, which has increased from a google page 27 to page 12 for my keywords over the last month and continues toward the top 10... I have another ...
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Should I use singular or plural nouns in a domain name and why?
Me and a group of people are in the process of choosing a domain name for a future website and we aren't sure whether the noun in the domain name should be plural or singular.
Currently we have 2 ...
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How do I prevent access to an add-on domain's root directory from main hosting domain name
I have an add-on domain in my cPanel website. The root directory for it is under the root of the hosting. How can I prevent access through the main domain?
For example, addondomain.com is configured ...
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SEO - 2 websites in the same domain
I have my domain (http://www.foobar.com, for example) and my website talks about technology. I want to have another website (with other content, not about technology) inside of it ...
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How do I point a new domain to start on a page that's not index.html on separate hosting?
I'm using a service (CMS/Host) called SquareSpace to host my site, and today I'm registering the domain for it. Basically, how do I make it so when somebody types www.tedxoxford.com it points at ...
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Should I register my xxxx.com domain as a trade mark? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Registering a domain name with a trademark in it
Should I register my xxxx.com domain as a trade mark?
If I own a domain (registered before trade mark registration) that ...
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Registrar with good security, DNS hosting, and DNSSEC and IPv6 resolvers?
I'm looking to move my domains away from GoDaddy, but I'm having a tough time finding anyone with comparable features at a (even remotely) similar price.
I've looked at the usual suggestions ...
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How do I register a domain name, but keep who I am secret?
Over the years I've seen a number of owner proxy services, but have never used one, and have no idea if they work; or for that matter if there's any legal risk to using them, such as making easier to ...
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Where can I safetly search domain whois without worrying about the search engine parking on the domain immediately after the search?
There are a lot of companies that provide domain whois but I've heard of a lot of people who had bad experiences where the domain was bought soon after the whois search and the price was increased ...
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Choosing which domain to secure
We've got a website that is served on both www.example.com and just example.com - we've never done any sort of forcing users from one domain to the other, so if they land on example.com then that's ...
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How to back order domain
It seems that information on the topic is a bit sparse in the wild. How do you go about back ordering a domain?
If you do find a service that will do it for you, does the current owner of the domain ...
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How many domains to split components across?
I understand how splitting components across domains can maximize parallel downloads, and enable you to have cookie-free static content domains, but since there's a time cost for each domain lookup ...
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DNS hosting better managed by Domain provider or Hosting provider?
Is it better to let DNS be managed by Domain Provider like GoDaddy/Namecheap or point the nameservers to hosting providers like Linode? What are the differences and disadvantages/advantages of both?
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Are there any technical issues with having an 'internationalized' domain name?
In my language there are numerous characters that are not allowed in the standard domain name. However, most of these can be easily replaced with safe equivalents (mostly dropping accents í becomes i ...
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When should I not use .com as a generic top-level domain? (.com vs .net, .org, etc.)
I've noticed .com is the standard top-level domain, but when should I not use .com? What are the most common alternatives? If someone has foo.com registered, should I choose a different domain or ...
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Using multiple A-records for my domain - do web browsers ever try more than one?
If I add multiple A-records for my domain, they are returned in a round robin order by DNS servers.
Example:
1.1.1.1 A example.com
1.1.1.2 A example.com
1.1.1.3 A example.com
But how does web ...
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Why do we have to pay for a domain name?
The question may sound stupid but I find it very difficult to understand that why do we have to pay for a domain name if the web is free? And who do I pay? Why do I have to pay for a domain name?
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Is it a bad idea to use a domain hack for my personal website name?
I want to create a personal webpage for info about myself (potentially for employment or other contact purposes), but the .com extension for my intended name is already taken. The name I want ends in ...
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Advantages of country TLD vs. .com
I want to get a domain for my site. The site's topic would be about Vienna, but the content will be in English.
I was thinking, if I should get .com domain or .at domain. .at is both much cheaper ...
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Why does my site only work with a www in the URL?
I'm a bit confused as the following points:
There is a simple text website, with no javascript, that works only with the prefix. http://www.mysite.corporation.com works but ...
