Every Domain Name tells a story, I wonder what this one's was.

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And I'd love to know the story behind this site: https://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/choosing_your_fabric.htm.  I ran across it while shopping online the other day.  The root page of the domain (https://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/index.htm) is a 404, but there's a number of pages live under that domain.

 

I wonder how they ever chose that particular domain name - it's as if they were trying for a half a dozen names and messed them up when they were registering the domain name.

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2008
    It looks like the site owner was trying to cram a bunch of search terms into his domain name in the mistaken belief that it would yield more Google links for folks looking for Christian apparal. Lydia of Thyatira was a maker of purple apparal mentioned in the Book of Acts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_of_Thyatira

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2008
    Well, you could go to http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/ (without index.htm), and you'd see the domain's home page. Home schooled -- obviously, they didn't teach SEO in the classes.

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2008
    Plenty of pages under the domain because if you go to http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/ it's a live page :)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2008
    Many years ago I worked at a hosting provider and we naturally did domain registrations. We couldn't do them automatically so someone every day did each one, and one client also had the habit of massively long domain names. When queried about it, he stated it was to improve their search rankings as the search engines weighted the domain name highly.

  • Anonymous
    January 02, 2008
    Wow, I just searched for that url and found blogs mentioning it back in 2005.  Of the 162,000+ hits on the counter I saw I suspect that 161,000+ of them have come indirectly thru bloggers laughing at their choice of url.

  • Anonymous
    January 03, 2008
    Thom, doesn't that prove there's no such thing as bad publicity ?

  • Anonymous
    January 03, 2008
    You may be right Nathan, but then again they could've paid for the bandwidth of 161,000 laughing visitors and only 1000 margnally interested souls.

  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2008
    One Word: Committee

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2008
    Apparently even the site owners are aware of the interest in the length of their URL name, as there is a hidden (text same color as background; select to see it) message at the bottom of the main page with the text: "o.Yes we have used the longest URL in the past http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/" Apparently they've got a few hidden links at the bottom of the page as well ... bizzare.

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2008
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