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My question is: Do they *really* need a whole domain name just for that? I mean come on... ;)
The errors go elsewhere.
let me guess: sprintreturns.com?
Nope, the errors go to a non-Sprint domain - someone that does mailing lists, I guess.
100,000 domains? Jeezis. A couple years ago, I thought about registering a domain with just my last name. I didn't, then it was registered by someone in Japan, who didn't even use it (there was no SOA record), let it expire, and now it's for sale. Last I checked, they wanted $2000 for it. Needless to say, selling domains should be illegal, IMO.
Well instead of making selling domain names illigal they should have to some develop to a site.
It's a marketing technique I use, albeit on a smaller scale, and I know on the surface it seems on the edge, but if you knew what the plan was, you would all be rushing out to do it. Not only does it dedicate one domain to one topic and make it easy to manage, when they linked together on the servers, they form one major power block.It's a long term investment in ecommerce.
Why do so many hosting companies have webhostsupport.com instead of support.their_actual_host_name.com? Heck, same thing with domain registrars, for that matter, who should REALLY know better.
Even some retail stores online have widgets.com and widgetsupport.com. Is it really that much more complicated to invite folks to go to widget.com/support?!
Is there something I'm missing here?
Maybe he who dies with the most domain names wins?
MOST people of course have no clue - take one of the largest holders of domain names - Dark Blue Sea Limited. none of this is a secret - they are a public company in australia.
They own 120,000 domain names they purchased for $1.1Million (US Dollars) this is $9.17 a domain.
They earned about $3400US PER DAY. Wow that is a lot :)
It works out to
3400 x 365 =$1.24 million a year - $1.1million. MINUS probably expenses as well.
I have no idea if the $3400 is profit or gross.
They can renew the domains for $6 - so if everything stays the same - they could earn a few hundred thousand next year (plus they can drop the non performing ones).
[huntleys.com.au...]
Sorry - I tried to find it in HTML and couldn't - the above is PDF format....
Moral. It is a fabulous idea to build an empire of related domain names. It's not only smart, it's profitable.It gives you so much flexibilty, and equity.
Task-domains are also useful for web designers -- sometimes you just plain need to work at the top level instead of in a subdirectory to get all those server side includes working correctly before you install the site on the clients server. And some clients are amazingly impressed at being told to look at domain-staging.com for their web site. Sure, you could do something like staging.domain.com instead of having a unique domain name, but some folks never quite understand those types of URLs and take up hours of time saying "huh?" and "but that's your site". I'd much rather pay the yearly registrar fee for a somewhat silly task-oriented version of my domain name than spend another minute explaining to Jane Confused that all websites don't being with "www" and that she won't get in trouble for typing something else (sigh).
