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Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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Post by jacquesm »

dotBen wrote: post #257
jacquesm wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No question is dumbass. Most of the concerns you've got were addressed in the text above I believe. As for me having 'good intentions' or not, time will be the judge of that, but let's just say that I spent a lot of time trying to be useful to HN and it would be a really dumb move to piss of a large portion of what has slowly become my network. That said I can't offer guarantees hence the caveat. Second, I think that…

Are you offering this because you will indirectly benefit from the PageRank from subdomains and presumably most HN'ers will have active sites that will experience good PageRank?

You're the second one to ask, see below for the anwer:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796784

Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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Post by mcknz »

dotBen wrote: post #257
jacquesm wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No question is dumbass. Most of the concerns you've got were addressed in the text above I believe. As for me having 'good intentions' or not, time will be the judge of that, but let's just say that I spent a lot of time trying to be useful to HN and it would be a really dumb move to piss of a large portion of what has slowly become my network. That said I can't offer guarantees hence the caveat. Second, I think that…

Are you offering this because you will indirectly benefit from the PageRank from subdomains and presumably most HN'ers will have active sites that will experience good PageRank?

A fair question, though I like Su's outlook:

Use Occam’s Razor in interpersonal relations: look for the simplest, most straightforward explanation that assumes the best of everybody. Stay away from people who always have a conspiracy theory involving twisted office politics, unfulfilled Machiavellian ambitions, and unspoken agendas.

Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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Post by jacquesm »

sparky wrote: post #260

Jacques, thanks so much for your generosity. Would it be possible to have matt.ww.com -> http://users.crhc.illinois.edu/johnso87/ ? Similar circumstances to BoppreH, if I'm reading correctly. matt.ww.com exists, but doesn't look particularly current. If not, I don't currently have a public IP that I own. Anyone know the cheapest way to get one, other than a static IP from your ISP (I can't get one because mine doesn'…

matt is fine, again I don't have a solution yet for the IP less redirects but I'll think of a way to do it, probably a small lookup table on one of my servers.

I was hoping to keep it simple though :)

Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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Post by jacquesm »

drey wrote: post #261

wrv.ww.com -> http://www.waveridingvehicles.com/ WRV is a local surf shop where I live and while I don't own the website I hate having to type in their URL. I think it would be a nice gift, even if it's temporary. Thanks in advance.

hey drey,

that one was used in the past but is free now, so you can have it.

Re: Gift HN: Anybody want a subdomain of ww.com?

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Post by justinchen »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #123

Jacquesm, I'm intrigued are you thinking this will give you domain authority (in SEO terms)? I can well imagine it would with a links in coming from these users. I'm not at all saying this is a bad thing, you're giving away a free service, just wondered if it was part of your considerations.

It shouldn't have any effect since Google views subdomains as separate entities. This is why it's better to have your company blog at www.domain.com/blog as opposed to blog.domain.com. Getting a lot of links to blog.domain.com doesn't help www.domain.com.
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