international domains

tracking redirected traffic

[CoolBert]

I'm in an environment where we have a .com site that handles redirected traffic for some of our internation domains. For example mycompany.de rolls into mycompany.com before a log is even established for that visitor. We would like to continue using the .com domain, but need to somehow track the traffic based upon the originating domain that the user typed. Right now, I'm thinking of having the international domains forwarded to an additional webiste that will quickly write a log and then bounce the user to the .com This additional website would then contain logs that I could use to generate reports. It seems like a strange way to handle things, but if someone has another thought, I'd be happy to hear your ideas. Thanks

[indomitable]

Hi Coolbert

When your users arrive in the .com site do they not have the originating country's URL set as the referrer?

Assuming they do, you could use your "top referrers" or similar report to aggregate your results.

[CoolBert]

Hi indomitable,

Right now the redirect is happening near the DNS level on our network. The user types a .de comain and is sent to .com before a log is even created. As far as the server is considered, the user has typed .com

I think I'm going to have to use an intermediary page to log hits and possibly set a local variable.