I was wondering whether its worth investing in different varients of my domain name. Is it worth doing? Cheers
If you were somone like google, registering gogle.com, gooogle.com, googe.com, etc. would be good as those may be common typos, and since they get so much type in traffic, it would be a good way to capture those visitors who have fat fingers. I've seen estimates that 1 in 10 people mistype a domain name when they type it in directly. If your domain gets a lot of type in traffic, getting the most common typos might be good investment. Eg, if 10% of the poor spellers convert, and you earn a profit of $1 per conversion, then it only takes an average of 100 typos during the year to cover the added expense. If typos only happen 1 out of 100 times, and only 1% of those typos convert at a penny a conversion, then you need an average of ~10 million visitors directly typing your domain name in the address bar just to cover the cost of one additional domain. On the other hand, it is also good if you want to protect your brand name. I registered the .com's for both afterfivewebdesign and after5webdesign, but this is purely an expense as I highly doubt anyone is going to mistype one when they mean the other. One has a permanent redirect to the other, and developing two different sites for essentially the same domain name would be counterproductive.
Nice thought Tim, I also registering more than one domain, simply to have a shorter domain name. Since my main domain is too long and I don't people can remember it well, so I bought a shorter one so people can easily remember my website. Especially when I'm in offline marketing campaign i.e. radio ads, seminar, etc ..
I haven't done this until now, but I just purchased 2 versions of my new domain - the .com and the .info versions. I did it simply to stop others from grabbing a similar domain, which can cause my traffic to go there. For example, people enter .com instead of .info and get their site. So this is a good think to keep in mind. Still now sure how I'll use both domains since they are so targeted. Maybe just use one as a redirect, or not at all. Which would be best?
I have 5 domain name for the same website. At the end, I use ony one and i'm going to park the 4 others...
If domain name really has meaning or exactly dictionary word or easy to remember then it will be profitable.
do you mean you want to register the potential typo domains and point to your main site? it's costly, and i doubt how much traffic you can receive form this type of sources. Like Tim mentioned, anyway this situation is possible for the big giants.
It depends what you want to build.better try make one domain good.from other side if you think you have find one very good name that you think is very valuable better register all available names