This is along with what I was thinking. The thought of keeping a database of 5 billion redirects ;-) Even if you stored it in cookies what context they need what I the same customer want to go to multiple contexts
Here is the biggest issue that I see. A domain name is an association since you have no control on the browser coming in to www.cool-domain.com the first time. You will confuse customers. To the customer who buys a product A from the domain.com, that is told to go to the same domain to buy product B, is confusing and not good business. Let's say that product A and Product B are competing brands and so Product A spends millions in advertising to come to this site and when they get there they learn about product B and buy Product B... :-( Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized Witango & MDaemon Reseller Available for Witango Developement -----Original Message----- From: Rick Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Looking for thoughts I agree, With all the re-directs and server-side stuff needed, it's an awful lot of overhead. If you need counters, and get lots of traffic to the sites, expect delays and slow-downs. On top of it, meta-redirect only works 99% of the time. Meta refresh has been known to not work 100%, especially if the visitor has lots of 3rd party toolbars installed on their browser, popup killer, etc... Too much is dependant on the client! Rick > Exactly! What's the point of hosting your site at > > www.some-cool-domain.com > > if you always have to tell people who come to your site to go to > > www.some-cool-domain.com/some-other-junk-to-make-it-work > > Unless of course you're going to build a "splash page" listing the > different companies on the homepage of the root directory for the domain. > > My opinion.... > > Your client should just sell to the highest bidder, or divide the domain > into subdomains. > > /John > > > Roland A. Dumas wrote: > > > > > On Nov 3, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Dan Stein wrote: > > > >> Ben, > >> > >> I don't see the problem. The DNS points to the domain we want > >> everyone to > >> see. Then all we are doing is loading a different web site depending > >> on how > >> they come in but hiding all the links through frames or forms so the > >> browser > >> URL address always remains the same. > >> > > > > > > the key is "depending on how they come in" > > - how would each company's visitors come in differently from other > > companies' visitors? > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/maillist.taf
