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    If I own a .com url and also have the same url with .net, .info, .org, will I want to point them to the .com IP address?

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    • djlittman
      djlittman last edited by

      I have a domain, for example, mydomain.com and I purchased mydomain.net, mydomain.info, and mydomain.org.  Should I point the host @ to the IP where the .com is hosted in wpengine? I am not doing anything with the .org, .info, .net domains.  I simply purchased them to prevent competitors from buying the domains.

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      • customerparadigm.com
        customerparadigm.com last edited by

        That's going to be more of a hosting question than anything else.

        If your website's hosting will allow you to recognize the .org, .info and .net domains, you can have them show up.

        However, what you want to be careful of is that you're not serving pages with www.mydomain.info/about/ that is the same duplicate content that is on the www.mydomain.com/about/ page.

        My recommendation would be to go up a level to your domain registrar, and simply have these sites forward (not URL mask), but forward to the main one.

        So if someone types in www.mydomain.net, the system will automatically redirect to the proper domain.  This is what we have done for the www.CustomerParadigm.org domain --> it just goes to the www.CustomerParadigm.com as a domain forward.

        Godaddy has an easy way of doing this; other registrars make it more difficult.

        You can also handle this on the site with 301 redirects for the other domains, but again, this is going to be something to work on with your web hosting platform.

        Hope this helps!
        -- Jeff

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        • Anti-Alex
          Anti-Alex last edited by

          Everything Jeff has there is the best way to combine the domains. You definitely don't want to mask and end up with duplicate content across .info, .org, .net, etc... Just send them to .com and use canonical tags

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