Comments on: 3 Reasons to NOT Buy Trending Top Level Photography Domains

By: Ross

Ross — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 02:16:02 +0000

I think that number 2 and number 3 (and actually number 1 in many respects) are only worries if you want to find reasons to worry. In reality, people don’t type URL’s, they search in google (mostly), and just so long as your website is found with the three words ‘john’, ‘doe’ and ‘photography’, it doesn’t matter if people aren’t familiar with anything except .com. I kind of get your rebranding reasoning but actually, unless your business name is johndoe.com rather than johndoephotography.com then johndoe.photography will be seamless if it gets neatly redirected by search engines, and it’s a more elegant URL too. Just my thinking, but I’m not resistant to change.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:21:35 +0000

In reply to Mark Stapleton. Not if it's a forward. If it's a duplicate site then yes.

By: Mark Stapleton

Mark Stapleton — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:20:40 +0000

Doesn’t pointing a domain at another site mean that Google thinks your domains have duplicate content or do you not index the new domains?

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:59:35 +0000

In reply to Colin. Hi Colin, That comes down to personal preference and protecting your name. For example, I purchase scottwyden.photography because my photography business name is my own name.

By: Colin

Colin — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 20:15:19 +0000

More curious about this: But does it matter what the name of your company is? I mean in regards to in Dave’s instance it’s not his name. And majority of us have unique names. There aren’t too many Colin McAuliffe’s in the world. There are even less doing photography. Since my company name is my name do I need to worry about this as much then in terms of protecting my brand?

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:59:22 +0000

In reply to Dave Alton. Without a doubt protecting your brand is valuable and worth buying it for. But definitely not for much else.