New Tool Being Released Tomorrow

[Steen]

Cool tool.

I ryme

 

[iBizStart]

I tried it but I don't get what the site is supposed to tell you. Can someone help?

 

[GiantDomains]

it's amazing how many sites on the internet don't resolve unless you type the www. So ofen i just type the domain name and extension, and think the site is down. Then I enter www, and they are there. If only they knew.

 

[Joe]

Cant wait to try it, thank you!

Me too. In fact, just the other day I was thinking to myself, how much traffic I am likely losing to people typing in http://SUBDOMAIN.mydomain.com, because my host ev1servers does not support wildcarded dns. Therefore, all that subdomain traffic is being redirected by my host to a 404 page. Ain't that a shame. Thanks DCG, and I do look forward to your tools and expertise.

-Joe

 

[DeCal]

Sounds good.... Will definatley check it out tomorrow.

 

[A D]

Hey all!

Today is tomorrow and it's out now!

OK,

First draft is done... THIS IS A FREE TOOL.

Go test at http://www.traffictester.com

Let me know what you think.

It made me a lot of money by finding out my wildcards and 404 pages were not redirecting on certain domains.

-=DCG=-

 

[A D]

ok, here is my example:

sorry in advance webcat:

Domain Name : SongClick.com
Without WWW : http://SongClick.com
With WWW : http://www.SongClick.com
With WildCards : Wrong DNS / No Entry / Not Pointed
404 Page : Wrong DNS / No Entry / Not Pointed
IP Address : 64.202.167.129
DNS Name Server : PARK9.SECURESERVER.NET

This result shows me 2 errors on webcats domain songclick.com

If I type in my browser: songs.songclick.com it will fail because wildcards are not setup correctly in the dns server. If it was, and I type that in, I would get forwarded to the actual site songclick.com

Now the 404 page: If I typed: songclick.com/ffffffff , where f could be any non existant page, it will give an error, If it was setup right in apache/web server, it would forward me to the website songclick.com.

So much traffic being wasted.

Hope this helps!

-=DCG=-

 

[WebCat]

No apology necessary! SongClick.com is being developed into the replacement for mp3.com!

But for now? It's parked at godaddy! Since it not pointed, there's no htaccess for 404 intercept. I suppose I should at least get it to my server! Doh!

 

[dvdrip]

Nice tool!
Can someone explain how I can fix the WildCards on a unix server?
Is it apache I need to configure and how?

 

[seeker]

sounds really great!
Looking forward to it.

 

[E=MC2]

how do you set up the 404 error page if you are just redirecting the name?

 

[Anthony Ng]

In fact, just the other day I was thinking to myself, how much traffic I am likely losing to people typing in http://SUBDOMAIN.mydomain.com ...

Except for "www" which has been the conventional sub-domain used for the web, WHY would anybody type in e.g. stupid.dnforum.com or silly.dnforum.com? Unless it's something that was set up by the previous owner, I don't think you have lost too much traffic, if any at all.

 

[WebCat]

I think it would mainly come from inbound links.

 

[NameTower]

yeah.. really all depends

for some this might help.

For me, it doesn't really matter

 

[Chosen]

Thanks for the tool
Its nice!

 

[Cash Is King]

Thanks... a very nice tool indeed