Hi all,
I am a newbie to this site and to domaining in general. I have purchased a few expired domains that had been receiving traffic but that don't have great domain names. My intention is to register a better domain name in each case for the same kind of content that was on the expired domain. Then I would redirect the expired domain to the new domain. In the long term, I probably would keep the new domain and put the old one up for sale or drop it when the traffic therefrom trickles down to nothing.
From watching some videos, however, I am not sure whether this would work as intended. In each case, the full URL of an original page that was receiving traffic no longer exists. Will the user get a 404 when he/she attempts to access the old page, or if the old domain is redirected to the new one, will their browser find the new domain?
Hypothetical example:
A tweet refers to a URL on expireddomain.com. Let''s say it is expireddomain.com/mysubpage.html. The domain expireddomain.com is now in my possession. There is no page mysubpage.html. However, I have a domain mynewdomain.com to which expireddomain.com is redirected through DNS settings. Is there any chance the user will get to mynewdomain.com? If not, do you recommend I attempt to establish the old pages on expireddomain.com (or skeleton pages thereof) by researching the Wayback Machine?
Thank you for reading.
I am a newbie to this site and to domaining in general. I have purchased a few expired domains that had been receiving traffic but that don't have great domain names. My intention is to register a better domain name in each case for the same kind of content that was on the expired domain. Then I would redirect the expired domain to the new domain. In the long term, I probably would keep the new domain and put the old one up for sale or drop it when the traffic therefrom trickles down to nothing.
From watching some videos, however, I am not sure whether this would work as intended. In each case, the full URL of an original page that was receiving traffic no longer exists. Will the user get a 404 when he/she attempts to access the old page, or if the old domain is redirected to the new one, will their browser find the new domain?
Hypothetical example:
A tweet refers to a URL on expireddomain.com. Let''s say it is expireddomain.com/mysubpage.html. The domain expireddomain.com is now in my possession. There is no page mysubpage.html. However, I have a domain mynewdomain.com to which expireddomain.com is redirected through DNS settings. Is there any chance the user will get to mynewdomain.com? If not, do you recommend I attempt to establish the old pages on expireddomain.com (or skeleton pages thereof) by researching the Wayback Machine?
Thank you for reading.
