Can you UNDO a 301 Permanent Redirect?

Client wants to start using his parked .net domain

[cws3di]

Well, a 301 is defined as a Permanent Redirect, right?

A client approached me that has both example.com and example.net

Their main company website is at .com and the .net has had a 301 redirect to .com for several months. The company claims they have never had any content on .net, bought it 2 years ago and parked it to protect the domain name.

They want to put a new website (not duplicate) on the .net that offers info on the services offered by a new division the company is launching.

Anybody ever done this before? Any ideas on how to get the spiders to visit and see the new website at .net?

[cws3di]

My question got buried by the time the mods released it... so I am re-posting to bump it back up.

Has anyone ever tried to recover a domain name from a 301 Permanent Redirect?

[texasville]

I would think that removing the redirect and getting links to the new site would get it crawled after a time. Be careful on the links tho. Don't link to the new site from the old one if on same server.

[jdMorgan]

Just from a practical point of view, this may cause massive confusion among customers of the company, old and new, and also even with the employees of the company, e.g. quoting the wrong domain name to customers on the phone, etc.

Has your client considered using a subdomain of the main company domain? - i.e. turbowidgets.example.com

Jim

[cws3di]

That's a great idea jd, probably preferable to start with a new domain or a subdomain, even if it is in the sandbox a while.

My opinion, I would rather start with something clean than a domain name with a questionable "history".

It is really hard to explain to a client that one of the worst things we can do is point a link from his main domain to the new division! If I start clean, we might have a chance.

[jimz]

301 is Temporary and 302 is Perm...

Hope that helps you tout there ;)

All The Best,

Jim

[kaled]

Scrap the redirect. Place some content on the site and resubmit it to Google etc. If the new content is indexed then you have your answer.

Kaled.

[Receptional Andy]

301 is Temporary and 302 is Perm...

Hope that helps you tout there

Just to point out, this is the wrong way round - 301 is moved permanently and 302 is temporary/found ;)

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[Receptional Andy]

Incidentally, webmasterworld dropped the 301 from webmasterworld.com to www.webmasterworld.com when it changed hosts (fixed today I think!). You can see both pages in current Google results [google.com].