Cybersquatting yourself?

[draggar]

I've wondered about something.

I register a unique TM (Buzzlecoff). I register the domain in .com, .net. .org, .info, and any relevant ccTLD.

I use the .net for the site - point everything except the .com to the .net

I also promote the .net

Then, I park the .com with affiliate ads. As my business grows (say Buzzlecoff is a product sold though resellers), more relevant ads pop up though Adwords.

As more people mis-type in the .com, more will click on the ads on the .com thus giving me adsense revenue *and* the reseller will need to purchase another product from me (to either sell or replenish their stock).

Has this been done before with (or without) success?

 

[BookMarc]

>> reseller will need to purchase another product from me (to either sell or replenish their stock).

When you say the above i am assuming yours this Buzzlecoff physical product which can be sold online....

At this point i will also "assume" you are directly selling this product from your site. and *not* exclusively thru resellers.

if so then ...
1) you could make more money from selling the product than from affliates ads
2) driving your traffic/customers (who may become regular clients assuming your product is a consumable)
3) if your resellers have their ads on your .com page then you would get a less amount per sale because you have to give a discounted price to reseller.

i hope i made sense.

 

[draggar]

It makes sense but what if I am not selling them though my site (my site is just informational).

I'm seeing how the majority of the time this could be utilized that it would not be worth it, but what if, in some instances, it is?

 

[jasdon11]

It makes sense but what if I am not selling them though my site (my site is just informational).

I'm seeing how the majority of the time this could be utilized that it would not be worth it, but what if, in some instances, it is?

As said above, it would probably be a much better use of the traffic to the .com if you were to sell the product through it. Give me product sales and a growing customer list, over Adsense any day.

 

[ksinclair]

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I agree, if you have a real product then build up your user base, dont do adsense. Some of your happy customers will give you links, or interact with your social networking.

But someone on the forum had a similar kind of idea: if they had the .com of a site, they would get all the other TLD and put all of them to parking except the .com. The .com would be build as a real site, not for shipping products just informational but a real site with page rank. The claim was that if the .com was a real site, and all there rest are ppc, then google would give more page rank to the .com. Does THAT work? Does google compare across TLD's or only evaluate each domain on its own merits?

 

[cursal]

This is how they do it for on line gambling sites.
Or at least I thought that's how they did it.

They advertise the fulltiltxxx.net all over the tv and promo-gear as play for free, learn to play, etc.
Now when user sits in front of the keyboard, the .com gets casually, unconsciously, typed in and it is the REAL poker site. For REAL money.

So they have another REAL member and not just a play member.
.....And they never advertised a REAL gambling site.

 

[ksinclair]

This is how they do it for on line gambling sites.
Or at least I thought that's how they did it.

They advertise the fulltiltxxx.net all over the tv and promo-gear as play for free, learn to play, etc.
Now when user sits in front of the keyboard, the .com gets casually, unconsciously, typed in and it is the REAL poker site. For REAL money.

So they have another REAL member and not just a play member.
.....And they never advertised a REAL gambling site.

That is their model but for different reasons. Both the .com and the .net are built out. But its not legal to advertise gambling, so they have the .net for 'practice'; for free. And yes, by advertising the .net, it will drive traffic to the .com.

My question is more an SEO question, if you had the .net and all other TLD set to parking, and the .com developed, would the parked TLD's help raise the page rank of the.com? Does google look at other TLD when assigning page rank to a domain?

And you would not have to own the others, actually. So a similar question, perhaps more interesting, is this: if the .com was parked, and you owned the .net, and all other TLD were also parked, would your .net get assigned more page rank?

 

[BookMarc]

a dot com is dot com is a dot com.

for instance...
dell does ONLY direct marketing
Acer does ONLY reseller

every one has different business model... so whatever works best is king.

but remember Internet has a LONG memory (archive.org for instance). so say later when you want an investor to grow your business and decide to start using .com or just redirect it to the main .net ... your investors will view it differently than you would. again i dont know if this comment makes sense.

on the Internet its not very hard to dig out a person past. (in this case a companies or a domains)

 

[cursal]

That is their model but for different reasons. Both the .com and the .net are built out. But its not legal to advertise gambling, so they have the .net for 'practice'; for free. And yes, by advertising the .net, it will drive traffic to the .com.

My point exactly. They never advertised the .com. But got their desired affect.

The OP asked about 'mis-typed' to goto the .com without advertising it.

Internet has a LONG memory (archive.org for instance)

You can block anything you like through the robots.txt file. So if you want to hide you site only from those "archive sites" just

User-agent: bot name here
Disallow: /

 

[BookMarc]

You can block anything you like through the robots.txt file. So if you want to hide you site only from those "archive sites" just

User-agent: bot name here
Disallow: /

yes, you can disallow anything with robots.txt file. however, how MANY such places are you gonna block... whois.sc keeps records to... and i am sure i can find a few more such sites if i look harder.

i traced a friend from 1983 who has no contact or work online but had once simply posted on some site looking for job. and he made that post in 1998 and i traced him down in 2005 (i remember correctly)