domain name and alias configuration?

I am about to set up hosting. I have registered three domain names
myname-example.com ; myname-example.co.uk ; myname.co.uk
Would the best setup be myname.co.uk as the main domain on the host with
the myname.example 's as aliases?
TIA for any feedback.
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Paul reply-to is valid

On 21 May, 12:54, Paul <Fin...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> I am about to set up hosting.

> Would the best setup be myname.co.uk as the main domain

Probably. Hard to say when we've only seen "-example", but the general
rule for names is that hyphens are undesirable.

> on the host with
> the myname.example 's as aliases?

Don't alias them at all, set them up as separate websites (just needs
to serve some headers, not even a page) and use a 301 redirect
instead.

Confusingly, this is the way to make Google et al. see the separate
domains as one site. If they redirect to one, then this becomes a
single site for all traffic. If you alias the names in the DNS, then
looking from URL space, there appear to be three separate web sites,
with resultant dilution of traffic.

On May 21, 7:54 am, Paul <Fin...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> I am about to set up hosting. I have registered three domain names
> myname-example.com ; myname-example.co.uk ; myname.co.uk
> Would the best setup be myname.co.uk as the main domain on the host with
> the myname.example 's as aliases?
> TIA for any feedback.

If "myname" is your company's name, and it's a commercial entity in
the United Kingdom, that would probably make sense. I'm not sure what
you even needed those other domains for.

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Dan

In message <1179767932.308656.325250@r3g2000prh.googlegroups. com>, Andy
Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> writes
>On 21 May, 12:54, Paul <Fin...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> I am about to set up hosting.
>
>> Would the best setup be myname.co.uk as the main domain
>
>Probably. Hard to say when we've only seen "-example", but the general
>rule for names is that hyphens are undesirable.
>
>> on the host with
>> the myname.example 's as aliases?
>
>Don't alias them at all, set them up as separate websites (just needs
>to serve some headers, not even a page) and use a 301 redirect
>instead.
>
>Confusingly, this is the way to make Google et al. see the separate
>domains as one site. If they redirect to one, then this becomes a
>single site for all traffic. If you alias the names in the DNS, then
>looking from URL space, there appear to be three separate web sites,
>with resultant dilution of traffic.
>
Thanks for the feedback. That is very helpful. To clarify. Let's say I
am offering a relatively common service eg. Plumbing , and I want the
service to appear in the domain name but obviously there are thousands
of websites with <plumber> and variations so I want to add a company
name. So I have domains
mycompanyname-plumber.co.uk
mycompanyname-plumber.com
also mycompanyname. co.uk
< which I might want to use for a different service in the future.>
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Paul McGuinness

In message <1179770242.395127.265410@n15g2000prd.googlegroups .com>, Dan
<dan@tobias.name> writes
>On May 21, 7:54 am, Paul <Fin...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> I am about to set up hosting. I have registered three domain names
>> myname-example.com ; myname-example.co.uk ; myname.co.uk
>> Would the best setup be myname.co.uk as the main domain on the host with
>> the myname.example 's as aliases?
>> TIA for any feedback.
>
>If "myname" is your company's name, and it's a commercial entity in
>the United Kingdom, that would probably make sense. I'm not sure what
>you even needed those other domains for.
>
>--
>Dan
>
See my other post for why.

It's becoming clear that I should have done more research before I
decided anything. :- (
But sometimes you don't know which are the right questions to ask until
you have made the mistakes.
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Paul McGuinness

On May 21, 3:24 pm, Paul McGuinness <p...@panton.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback. That is very helpful. To clarify. Let's say I
> am offering a relatively common service eg. Plumbing , and I want the
> service to appear in the domain name but obviously there are thousands
> of websites with <plumber> and variations so I want to add a company
> name. So I have domains
> mycompanyname-plumber.co.uk
> mycompanyname-plumber.com
> also mycompanyname. co.uk
> < which I might want to use for a different service in the future.>

You could use subdomains for that:
plumbing.mycompanyname.co.uk
plumber.mycompanyname.co.uk
etc.

This doesn't require any additional domain registrations, and can be
expanded to create subdomains for every specialty you engage in, and
you can then use each of them as if it were a separate domain (it
actually is, just at one level higher than the one you registered) and
have different websites at each or redirect some of them to others.

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Dan