http://www.dotweekly.com/when-domain-name-forwarding-may-not-be-good/ Sun, 20 May 2012 18:20:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.dotweekly.com/when-domain-name-forwarding-may-not-be-good/#comment-9393 Lloyd Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:02:09 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2926#comment-9393 As a former employee of multi-brand hotel companies, I can tell you why they do this. The logic to create a central repository for ALL their brands to offer you an alternative at booking. As an example, if you wanted to stay in Kalispell, MT and were looking for a Holiday in on just holidayinn.com, you would get no hotel available. However, with the one page (ichotelsgroup.com) it shows you alternatives for all their brands, without having to poll each site and then reassemble if the inventories were held separately on each site. I agree redirection is goofy in the address bar, maybe something could be done better across the top of the page to say 'you are on the.... site, owner of holiday inn.....) or a popup message on redirect to give consumers more confidence. As a former employee of multi-brand hotel companies, I can tell you why they do this. The logic to create a central repository for ALL their brands to offer you an alternative at booking. As an example, if you wanted to stay in Kalispell, MT and were looking for a Holiday in on just holidayinn.com, you would get no hotel available. However, with the one page (ichotelsgroup.com) it shows you alternatives for all their brands, without having to poll each site and then reassemble if the inventories were held separately on each site. I agree redirection is goofy in the address bar, maybe something could be done better across the top of the page to say ‘you are on the…. site, owner of holiday inn…..) or a popup message on redirect to give consumers more confidence.

]]> http://www.dotweekly.com/when-domain-name-forwarding-may-not-be-good/#comment-9392 Angela Carpenter Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:04:28 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=2926#comment-9392 Good post! It's good to learn some new information on domain forwarding. Well, I also read a great blog on domain forwarding but focusing on the brighter side of the aspect...http://tinyurl.com/ykj4dap Good post! It’s good to learn some new information on domain forwarding. Well, I also read a great blog on domain forwarding but focusing on the brighter side of the aspect…http://tinyurl.com/ykj4dap

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