question Opendi - 1200 .com domains registered in 7 days!

[DNVantage]

Whats with opendi keyword?

Over 500 .com domains were registered today and about 1200 in last 7 days? Any idea why?

you can check the chart at domainview.verisignlabs.com

 

[GravityEleven]

it's this company at www.opendi.com and www.opendi.us (us version)

they are building a listings directory based on using "town/city/area - opendi.com" domain names for their sub directories, it seems..

 

[DNVantage]

they are building a listings directory based on using "town/city/area - opendi.com" domain names for their sub directories, it seems..

@GravityEleven, so I am curious about this, what is their rational?

I checked few of names with openid.....
san-jose-opendi.com
state-tennessee-opendi.com
state-north-dakota-opendi.com
state-nebraska-opendi.com
stockton-ca-opendi.com
rockville-md-opendi.com
clearwater-fl-opendi.com

Some of the patterns of registered names are
state-<statename>-opendi.com or
<cityname>-opendi or
<cityname>-<state-abbr>-opendi.com

This way even for just North America, the names would be in hundreds of thousands, if they were to cover all cities/towns! If the company decides to do the same for every country they cater to, some registrar is going to be very happy.

Would it not be better to have
<cityname>.<state>.opendi.com or
opendi.com/<state>/<cityname>
format?

Guess Geo EMD are still in vogue

I have added a reminder in calender to see if these domains will be renewed next year!

This makes a very interesting case study for SEO.

Suggestion to anyone thinking of registering such domains, I hope you don't. (TM!)

This question is for trying to understand why so many .com registrations with one common word are being registered, and what is the benefit from it.

 

[namey]

What a waste of money

 

[sofiapartner]

I noticed this too. Its a waste of money indeed. They should have made subdomains to their main one.

To be honest - I was thinking to register some "opendi" names following their logic, but decided not to.

 

[DNVantage]

To be honest - I was thinking to register some "opendi" names following their logic, but decided not to.

@sofiapartner, Good you did not, it would be a TM issue.

As I mentioned in my earlier post,

This makes a very interesting case study for SEO.

but that's about it!

 

[Electric-Shadow]

Imo it wouldn't make any difference from an SEO point of view whether it was put under a sub-domain or a .com the search term and results would be the same. I just don't see the logic.

 

[sofiapartner]

Should we email them and inform them about that We will save them a lot of money. Muhahaha.

 

[DNVantage]

Should we email them and inform them about that We will save them a lot of money. Muhahaha.

Maybe they know something we don't?

I certainly don't know enough about SEO to say this is not the optimal method. On the contrary, I have read some articles which advocate this approach but that was few years ago, maybe that is still valid? Maybe this is not about SEO? Maybe they are experimenting something new?

Would be interesting to watch and learn.