That's ridiculous.
You don't have to enter every possible misspelling, but you should always set up
www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com at the same time. It adds about 1 second of work and
gains you perhaps 30% more visitors. Where DO you point mydomain.com? At your FTP
server? At your firewall?
That's ridiculous.
You don't have to enter every possible misspelling, but you
should always set up www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com at the
same time. It adds about 1 second of work and gains you perhaps
30% more visitors. Where DO you point mydomain.com? At your FTP
server? At your
1,500 domains x 10 seconds per domain (automate it down to 1 second per domain!) =
approx. 4 hours of work
$5,000,000/month x 30% more = $1,500,000/month more.
I'll make the DNS changes for you if you give ME the extra money that comes in.
Even though the numbers above are 'made up', if you
On 12/28/00, Marcus penned:
I had spent a great deal of time writing the reasons behind my decision not
to include the secondary dns listing, but I decided to get cocky and just
reply that...
Currently I have over 1,500 websites that generate just over 5 million
dollars a month for the company I
I just checked the site and it looks completely different. I bet you hit it
during the update.
What I _really_ want to know is the name of the techno song used during the
intro??? :
===
Raymond Camden, Principal Spectra
working fine from here.
-Original Message-
From: Jay Patton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 10:57 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: figleaf.com
Hey Dave,
Whats up with figleaf.com? i wanted to play some smackdown durring lunch and
the site wont come up?
Jay Patton
try http://www.figleaf.com/smackdown/splash.cfm
-Original Message-
From: Jay Patton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 1:57 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: figleaf.com
Hey Dave,
Whats up with figleaf.com? i wanted to play some smackdown durring lunch and
the site
yeah its up now
thanks
Jay Patton
Web Pro USA
406.549.3337 ext. 203
1.888.5WEBPRO
www.webpro-usa.com
- Original Message -
From: "Dylan Bromby" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:59 AM
Subject: RE: figleaf.com
wo
Inc.
-Original Message-
From: Dylan Bromby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 1:59 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: figleaf.com
working fine from here.
-Original Message-
From: Jay Patton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 10:57 AM
1400 16th St NW, # 220
Washington DC 20036
202.797.6570 (direct line)
www.figleaf.com
-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 2:06 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: figleaf.com
I know this may sound a little silly, but a lot of
having to specify the "www." isn't all that silly what if a
site is also
running an ftp server gopher server, etc. for a domain then you'd want
to force the www
Ooooh, one of my pet peeves and you guys just keep pushing my buttons. :)
There is no _good_ reason to force a user to
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From: Jay Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 2:25 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: figleaf.com
I know this may sound a little silly, but a lot of companies
like to force you to use the www alias for their websites.
I can't believe that's done on purpose. About 1/3
.
-Original Message-
From: Jay Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 11:25 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: figleaf.com
I know this may sound a little silly, but a lot of companies
like to force you to use the www alias for their websites.
I can't believe that's done
having to specify the "www." isn't all that silly what if a
site is also
running an ftp server gopher server, etc. for a domain then you'd want
to force the www
Well, grouping the dns's so "www.figleaf.com" and "figleaf.com" map to the
same thing wouldn't really be an issue. The
the
machine name too (ftp, gopher, news, mail, bob, whatever).
Todd Ashworth
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From: "Simon Horwith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 2:20 PM
Subject: RE: figleaf.com
| having to specify the "w
There is no _good_ reason to force a user to type "www." on your
URL. None.
Period. If you require it, it's a geek thing, not a user thing. Of course,
if you don't care about users, then that's another matter.
There is a very good reason for a user to type the "www." on my URL. If they
Wednesday, December 27, 2000 2:30 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: figleaf.com
having to specify the "www." isn't all that silly what if a
site is also
running an ftp server gopher server, etc. for a domain then you'd want
to force the www
Ooooh, one of my pet peeves and you guy
having to specify the "www." isn't all that silly.
But it's mostly counterproductive. www.domain.com and domain.com A
records both return the the same ip, WTF else do you want to at port
80 of that ip?
Having an A record lookup of www and domain.com return different ip's
serves what
having to specify the "www." isn't all that silly what if a
site is also
running an ftp server gopher server, etc. for a domain then you'd want
to force the www
If a user wants to get your ftp or gopher server, then they can enter the
full URL. This is just a simple DNS issue we're
liptIQ Inc.
-Original Message-
From: Dylan Bromby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 2:32 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: figleaf.com
a lot of companies do in fact do this on purpose. some companies route the
3rd level www component to a server or farm on a specif
www.figleaf.com comes up for me, but figleaf.com does not.
Probably just an oversight, if it's a DNS thing.
Thanks for pointing out this oversight. The A record for figleaf.com was
pointing at the old host address. We recently changed our ISP, and this was
a leftover.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: figleaf.com
having to specify the "www." isn't all that silly what if a
site is also
running an ftp server gopher server, etc. for a domain then you'd want
to force the www
If a user wants to get your ftp or gopher server, then they can enter th
Hey Marcus,
There is a very good reason for a user to type the "www." on my
URL. If they
don't, they will not arrive at my sites!
I got to http://adtelusa.com/ just fine. Whew. :)
Do I register every possible misspelling just in case they are
dyslexic? snip NO!
That's right. Just two
Some would argue that having a 60kb image-mapped graphic that
serves as the
entire content of your home page isn't effective, either, but
that's another
topic altogether. ;)
Oh yes... And I would be one of them... If someone out there could please
inform the Vice President of Development
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