new domain: d-programming-language.org

Chris Miller chris at dprogramming.com
Mon May 8 21:10:13 PDT 2006


Sorry about that unfriendly post. I'll try to explain better.

Google and yahoo search both treat domains with '-' less because they're  
most likely spam domains. '-' does pretty much no good, and is harder to  
tell people the site vocally due to having to explain the dashes, and  
makes it overall sound less appealing.
Notice that when you google for `d programming` it bolds the whole,  
non-'.com' part of dprogramming.com because it does do substring searches  
on domains.

The other issue is that it's just too long, even without the dashes. I  
wouldn't be surprised if search engines give lower priority to domains  
that long as well.

digitalmars.com and dprogramming.com are fairly long, but they don't  
exactly go over that "too far" limit like d-programming-language.org does.

My suggestion is to get dlanguage.org, and also get dlanguage.com to  
redirect to dlanguage.org.
There are different reasons for also getting the .com version: many people  
try .com first; domain squatters watch for .org registrations and hurry up  
and grab the .com counterparts for spam sometimes; and .com hasn't  
completely meant 'commercial' for years now, some users even don't know it  
or assume it means 'computer'.

- Chris



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