Domain Name Forwarding – Why Two Names or Twenty Are Better Than One

If you’re like most of us, chances are that as soon as you registered one domain name, two or three other good names popped into your mind. Why not put those other names to work for you?

Think of domain name forwarding as another way to direct people online to where YOU want them to land. Let’s say you have a website and your business name is the domain name. Is that name memorable and can people find it when they search online?

You might consider purchasing a generic domain name that includes your products or services and forward the domain name to a web page about that service.
For example, nycdiscountbrakes.com could “forward” to the brakes page on Herbsautorepair.com website.

How effective is this? According to the Computer User, About.com supposedly acquired 4,000 domain names as part of a stealth effort to control all possible combinations of the About.com domain name. In under two months, the company moved up to the 9^th most visited site on the Internet from the 25^th position.

Domain name forwarding can be an advantage for people and organizations like non-profits. Some people like their MySpace pages but don’t like the long web address. A quick work around would be to buy an easy-to-remember domain name and forward the domain to the MySpace page. Example, the domain name SeanWestBikes.com forwards to his MySpace Page. How easy is that?

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