On 10/30/2014 04:55 AM, Rafnews wrote: > In this case, why not purchase the domain name with extension, and only do a > permanent redirection ? Their is no difference in doing it that way or just having a single server serve the same files for each unique TLD and translating the content to the appropriate language all done from a single source code base. > > Best Regards > > Alain R. > > The information contained in this e-mail message is privileged and > confidential and is for the exclusive use of the addressee. The person who > receives this message and who is not the addressee, one of his employees or an > agent entitled to hand it over to the addressee, is informed that he may not > use, disclose or reproduce the contents thereof. Please do not disclose the > contents to anyone, but notify the sender by return email and delete this > email (and any attachments) from your system. Thank you. > On 30.10.2014 12:30, Lester Caine wrote: >> On 30/10/14 09:59, Rafnews wrote: >>> Can you tell me why are they doing this ? >>> because it means that all domains share the same DB but only domain is >>> used for SEO and to easily manage languages. >>> However it means they must update each domain separately when they >>> change code. >>> >>> So why are they doing this ? >> As Arno said ... we tend to be forced to buy up every domain ending just >> to keep squatters or speculators off a particularly important brand >> name, so why not sue them. The SEO stuff can be a problem with some >> processes complaining of duplicate copies of domains, but that is just a >> broken crawling process. Some of the 'audits' will complain when you >> have different languages accessing material that can't be translated, so >> you can't win which ever way you go :( >> >> Internally, all the different routes can eventually go to the same >> single site. It does depend on how you handle all the translations, and >> it may be easier to keep the one set of 'workings' such as all the >> generic wrappers, but maintain separate manual translations of the >> content, or alternatively have a system which populates a generic >> template with translated content from the database. >> >> One can safely break the domian names and url's used to access a site >> from the underlying processing of the site. >> > > -- Jim Lucas http://www.cmsws.com/ http://www.cmsws.com/examples/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
