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Perhaps it was incorrect of me to claim that users don't notice domains. I suppose the issue I was getting at was users don't appear to memorize the domain and
by e2le 7y ago
Perhaps it was incorrect of me to claim that users don't notice domains. I suppose the issue I was getting at was users don't appear to memorize the domain and instead use Google or similar for finding the site they are looking for.
- emn13 7y agoBut how does google find those domains? Link juice still matters, and those links work via... domains.
- e2le 7y agoThose links work with domains or addresses no matter if it's https://yourdomain.com/ https://yourdomain.com/ or https://[2001::1]/ https://[2001::1]/. Google finds those domains through a variety of means (social media, collecting other domains from the sites they index, manually submitted domains, etc). Google also indexes addresses.
- emn13 7y agoBut links aren't alive; so if somebody once linked to something you wrote/own/built/whatever on some domain, you can't magically transfer that link to your new site if the domain name system decides to jack up prices until you consider moving. And you're similarly not likely to own an ip address forever, not to mention that if you have any doubts about the userfriendliness of domains, you don't need to wonder about ip-addresses. Ip addresses are worse on all fronts; leaving you back to square one: the DNS gatekeepers own your domain and merely let you use it. Just pray they don't change the terms of that deal.