Last month we bought TheNextWeb.com in an auction at Sedo.com for only $1000. It took a while to transfer the domain to our hosting provider but it worked out and today we decided to take a deep breath and switch our blog from TheNextWeb.org to TheNextWeb.com.
The .org version of our domain will always work too but now redirects to the .com url. No need to update any old links! We will also start using the .com version for our email addresses but the old ones will also keep working.
So far it looks like everything still works but we are keeping an eye on it and if you see something that doesn’t seem to work as expected please do let us know. As far as I know there shouldn’t be any effect when it comes to Search Engine Optimization but I can imagine that readers are more inclined to return to a blog that has a .com domain name. Right now almost 30% of all our traffic comes from Google so we are keeping on eye on that too!
Yes, this is great! So much easier to explain.
Do we get a .com email address as well?
Yes, have to do most manually…
All sidebar links still go to .org by the way
yeah me too!
Wow that’s awesome! Finally a .com name, curious to see how Google will pick this up
Congrats guys, what’s the next step towards world-domination ?
Nothing spectaculair. Check archive.org. Maybe they can show you…
What kind of site did .com previously link to then?
Hey, whatever the case – a .com is definitely better than .org…congrats guys, and what a bargain at $1000!
yup, crap indeed.
A small step for mankind,
A giant leap for TheNextWeb
Ooh. Nice. Feels all grown-up now.
The old feeds will just work! No need to change anything.
I hope… ;-)
Darren, when you use proper 301 redirects moving domains will not affect your Google ranking.
What about the feeds ? amy changes there or the old feed will work
i like the org but I can say honestly I don’t look at the address bar when I am on the site.
1 thing, does it affect your page rank suddenly changing domain? I don’t know if it does or not but would be good to know.
Yes, try it!