Hello everyone,
I'm just now starting a business presence on the web. My partner already owns two domain names which are related to the name of the company. Considering the topic at hand, if you don't mind I'll refrain from using the actual domain names on this post. I'll instead call it them by a moniker; xptodomain.com and xptodomain.co.uk.
What I have recently realized is that there's a miriad of related domain names, which presence in the web is nothing more than pages full of links to other websites (which business is related to ours) and no real content of their own. I've seen the following related domains:
xpto.domain.com
xpto_domain.com
xptodomainfor.com
xptodomain.co.uk.net
netxptodomain.com
I need the following from you:
- Bibliography, web articles, white papers, google search strings, anything that better helps me understand this phenomena. What is it, how is it called and why is it done. I'm not interested in knowing how it is done unless it leads to a better understanding.
- Information (here or through links to documentation) on how can I fight it before and after registering a new domain name.
I would appreciate any help in better understanding this phenomena and how to fight it.
I'm just now starting a business presence on the web. My partner already owns two domain names which are related to the name of the company. Considering the topic at hand, if you don't mind I'll refrain from using the actual domain names on this post. I'll instead call it them by a moniker; xptodomain.com and xptodomain.co.uk.
What I have recently realized is that there's a miriad of related domain names, which presence in the web is nothing more than pages full of links to other websites (which business is related to ours) and no real content of their own. I've seen the following related domains:
xpto.domain.com
xpto_domain.com
xptodomainfor.com
xptodomain.co.uk.net
netxptodomain.com
I need the following from you:
- Bibliography, web articles, white papers, google search strings, anything that better helps me understand this phenomena. What is it, how is it called and why is it done. I'm not interested in knowing how it is done unless it leads to a better understanding.
- Information (here or through links to documentation) on how can I fight it before and after registering a new domain name.
I would appreciate any help in better understanding this phenomena and how to fight it.