Domain Names:URL Redirect
From MDSupportWiki
URL Redirect makes a website available under many domains. There are many reasons why you might need a Redirect service.
- Misspellings - For example, Google registered both google.com, and googel.com - both domains point to the same website
- Moving sites - Just like a postal forwarding service when you change address, a Redirect will let everyone know that you've changed your domain name or location of your homepage, and move them along to the new domain address
- Country specific domains - For example, if you registered myservice.com, myservice.com.au, and myservice.com.nz, as well as other namespaces such as myservice.net, and so forth and wanted all of them to redirect to the same website
There are of course several other uses which you can read about in the Wikipedia article.
Most common application - a simple case study
Most of our customers purchase the same domain in several namespaces (.com, .net, .info, .au, .uk) and so forth to try and protect their online identity. Once someone else registers a domain, it is theirs for the keeping - and, if a competitor manages to register your domain name in a different namespace, your brand or your business could suffer serious damage. That is why we recommend you register your domain in as many namespaces as you can find, and set up redirects to lead them back to your homepage!
External Links
Wikiepedia- URL Redirection - An indepth article
MD URL Redirection - Purchase URL Redirection from MD
