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how to make your URL look "special"? (10)

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Hey guys, I've recently seen some landing pages with the URL displaying something like cnn.com-xxxxxxxx.xyz or bbc.com-xxxxxxxxx.xyz

Seems like the person added a C name or A record or something to their domain to make their page look like it is from CNN or BBC news.

I know it may not be allowed, but i'm just curious how it is done.

any guide on how to set this up?


-Jon
Skype: jonsee88

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Simply buy a domain like this:

com-whatever.com

And then create a "cnn" subdomain and you get: cnn.com-whatever.com

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Say your domain name is: com-best-2016.xyz

And your ACTUAL campaign domain name is campaign.com

And you want to set up a subdomain www.xxx.com-best-2016.xyz to point to campaign.com

Then create a CNAME record, under host put:
www.xxx or xxx (depending on whether you want www or not, you can make both)
and at "target" put campaign.com

I'm no DNS expert but I think if you need to point it to an IP-address you use A-record instead, and CNAME if you point it to an actual domain name.
A-records are a tiny bit faster since the CNAME must resolve to an IP whereas A-record goes for it right away.

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You can enable wildcard subdomains to point to a folder in your hosting. There you can put a script that handles all the wildcard subdomain traffic.

Most people don't know about all the extensions out there so you can trick them and use campagin specific domains to boost conversion rates.

Using this method anything*.yourdomain.extension goes to your main script. Lets say you own loading.space you can enable this method and go to:
www.ebay.com.item-3958574.loading.space and it will work. You can also get a .extension domain like com-hello.space and use it in a similar way.

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Technically, this is a basic subdomain setup. Nothing complicated about this at all.

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ahhh. ok. got it figured out. it wasn't as complicated as i thought.

i've just create a subdomain, set up the FTP and its all ready to go.

thanks all!


Jon
Skype: jonsee88

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Thats genius

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It's also a great way to get sued.

Just ask the people who were using facebook.com-*.com domains how that worked out for them.

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Any threads or articles on this? please share.


Jon
Skype: jonsee88

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http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/01/u-s...8m-in-damages/

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