Comments on: Internet Engine Upgrades Its Domain

By: Internet Business

Internet Business — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:56:40 +0000

I work on this stuff full time. I couldn’t agree more. Great post! Good stuff!

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:17:35 +0000

Marg – doing a 301 is an acceptable way to do this (although a lot more work). In this case I think they made a smart move. They have the domain for protection and email purposes…it really won’t matter much that the site people ultimately visit is the old .net.

By: Marg

Marg — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:11:39 +0000

Hi Drew, I did think (after I posted) maybe that’s why they did this. Our company had to change URLs last year for re-branding and we did a lot of planning and a 301 redirect. Within a short time we were back where we had been in the SERPs, with the benefit of the better name.On the other hand they are the SEO folks, so they must know what they’re doing…

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:26:12 +0000

Marg,
If they did it the other way around, they would be throwing away all of the SEO power of the aged website internet-engine.net. Internet-Engine.net has a PR of 4/10, which is something not to be discarded. Being an SEO firm, they are taking the correct approach.

By: Marg

Marg — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:16:37 +0000

Interestingly if you enter InternetEngine.com, it resolves to Internet-Engine.net. I would have thought they would have done this the other way around now, and have the “old” dot net domain forward to InternetEngine.com

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:57:50 +0000

@ JP – yes. It’s a design trademark, but that doesn’t stop many people…

@ Rob – agree, although it’s a shame people have so much trouble getting in touch with domain owners.

By: Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:36:31 +0000

1. Great to see end users chasing a domain that they want and willing to pay a good price.

2. Great to see that the owner is willing to sell at a price that most likely had a lot of profit built into it.

That’s a sign healthy industry.