I have one main domain for one main site.
Here is the issue - I have registered many variations of the domain through my hosting company. I have recently switched my hosting platform for the main domain from unix to windows because we are launching a new version of the site that required a .net CMS.
Unfortunately the platform switch migrated all of my domains in the domain manager and populated the zone file A records with the ip of the new site. Previously they were not pointing there (or at least they weren't getting spidered) - So all the other domains point to the main site now. Just today three of the other domains have been indexed by google.
What is the best way to point the other domains with out a search engine penalty? if this is possible, if not, I am perfectly happy to not point them they don't generate much traffic. It is mostly for misspellings.
1) I have tried to just erase the ip data in the A records - it won't allow me to do this
2) Implement 301 redirects from the other domains to the main domain - Do I need multiple individual hosting accounts to setup the 301s? Currently I don't have multiple accounts for each domain. There are about 30 domains.
If you have unlimited (or a sufficient number of) virtual domains with your hosting package, then you can easily do it yourself.
You can always go with a third-party redirect. Often erroneously called a "DNS redirect", because it is commonly offered as a free or additional-cost service along with DNS. It's typically listed in the user interface for DNS as if it were just another kind of DNS record.
Really, they are pointing the A record to their own webserver, which then does a redirect.
This is offered for free by many domain registries.
Keep in mind that you don't get something for nothing. There is a reason they are doing it for free. They are collecting valuable statistics, which you may or may not want them to have.
