Comments on: The Matt Cutts Domain Question Answered http://www.10e20.com/blog/2006/12/01/the-matt-cutts-domain-question-answered/ Social Media Marketing Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:20:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Morgret Designs » AboutUs.org: Too Much Information? http://www.10e20.com/blog/2006/12/01/the-matt-cutts-domain-question-answered/comment-page-1/#comment-1180 Morgret Designs » AboutUs.org: Too Much Information? Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:31:55 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2006/12/01/the-matt-cutts-domain-question-answered/#comment-1180 [...] One tool was not mentioned when people were trying to determine how Matt Cutts found a plethora of domain names registered to the same person. While it turns out nearly all of the sites Matt listed were actually on the homepage of the parent organization, one could have gone to AboutUs.org and found many of those related sites. AboutUs.org “is a wiki whose goal is to create a free and valuable Internet resource containing information both about websites and other related data. The site was pre-populated with information about many different websites and thousands of updates are now being made by people each day” (from their about page). What their statement doesn’t mention is that the pre-populated information comes from a lot of Whois data, and many of those updates are people going to the site to remove their whois information from the aboutus website. [...] [...] One tool was not mentioned when people were trying to determine how Matt Cutts found a plethora of domain names registered to the same person. While it turns out nearly all of the sites Matt listed were actually on the homepage of the parent organization, one could have gone to AboutUs.org and found many of those related sites. AboutUs.org “is a wiki whose goal is to create a free and valuable Internet resource containing information both about websites and other related data. The site was pre-populated with information about many different websites and thousands of updates are now being made by people each day” (from their about page). What their statement doesn’t mention is that the pre-populated information comes from a lot of Whois data, and many of those updates are people going to the site to remove their whois information from the aboutus website. [...]

]]> By: Advokat i Oslo http://www.10e20.com/blog/2006/12/01/the-matt-cutts-domain-question-answered/comment-page-1/#comment-382 Advokat i Oslo Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:17:37 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2006/12/01/the-matt-cutts-domain-question-answered/#comment-382 Guys, its been known rule in the market to buy domain names in different names, or paying extra for not showing whois information. I don't get the point of people jumping up in their chairs, just because Matts says something. It's to much speculation about Google, and guess who's earning on that.. In terms of Linkbaiting, Google is the perfect example. Guys, its been known rule in the market to buy domain names in different names, or paying extra for not showing whois information.

I don’t get the point of people jumping up in their chairs, just because Matts says something. It’s to much speculation about Google, and guess who’s earning on that.. In terms of Linkbaiting, Google is the perfect example.

]]> By: Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing http://www.10e20.com/blog/2006/12/01/the-matt-cutts-domain-question-answered/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:43:07 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2006/12/01/the-matt-cutts-domain-question-answered/#comment-350 <strong>SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 4, 2006...</strong> Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:...... SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 4, 2006…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:……

]]> By: Chris Winfield http://www.10e20.com/blog/2006/12/01/the-matt-cutts-domain-question-answered/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Chris Winfield Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:57:41 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2006/12/01/the-matt-cutts-domain-question-answered/#comment-155 Hi Keri - Very good points! What would make the most sense then is that he did a whois lookup on <a href="http://whois.domaintools.com/realestatelicense.com" rel="nofollow">realestatelicense.com</a> and then ran a name check (probably here with his own tool) for the registered owner of that site which is the same as <a href="http://whois.domaintools.com/teachmespanish.net" rel="nofollow">teachmespanish.net</a>. Which would then also give him the quick 58+ number. Hi Keri -

Very good points!

What would make the most sense then is that he did a whois lookup on realestatelicense.com and then ran a name check (probably here with his own tool) for the registered owner of that site which is the same as teachmespanish.net. Which would then also give him the quick 58+ number.

]]> By: Keri Morgret http://www.10e20.com/blog/2006/12/01/the-matt-cutts-domain-question-answered/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Keri Morgret Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:50:28 +0000 http://www.10e20.com/2006/12/01/the-matt-cutts-domain-question-answered/#comment-149 The order in which Matt asked about the domains reinforces this theory -- he started asking in the same order they are listed on the alliedschools.com page. I agree that it was done with common tools, and was about to write a similar post myself. The two things that I still have not resolved are: 1) How did Matt find teachmespanish.net? Given the site, I can see that it is registered by the same company, but I can't determine how he found that site initially. 2) How did Matt get the 58+ sites figure, and so quickly? I only found about 43 outbound links from alliedschools.com. With more digging, I found 9 others from whois data (multiple domains on the same IP). I know this is close to 58+, but I'm obviously missing teachmespanish.net, so I wonder what else I'm missing -- and how he found it. The order in which Matt asked about the domains reinforces this theory — he started asking in the same order they are listed on the alliedschools.com page.

I agree that it was done with common tools, and was about to write a similar post myself. The two things that I still have not resolved are:

1) How did Matt find teachmespanish.net? Given the site, I can see that it is registered by the same company, but I can’t determine how he found that site initially.

2) How did Matt get the 58+ sites figure, and so quickly? I only found about 43 outbound links from alliedschools.com. With more digging, I found 9 others from whois data (multiple domains on the same IP). I know this is close to 58+, but I’m obviously missing teachmespanish.net, so I wonder what else I’m missing — and how he found it.

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