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Is it safe to give part of your domain url to redirect to someone else's website

So I have a domain.com I've been approached by some company in same industry to change dns of "somepart.domain.com" of my domain to redirect to their dns. That will drive them traffic and they will backlink to me there. Is it safe or did anyone did it?

bestham 2y ago
What is your definition of safe? You are now tainting your domain with whatever they end up serving on that sub-domain.
pwg 2y ago
> Is it safe That depends upon your definition of "safe". Note that, for most web users, they will see "somepart.domain.com" as just another part of "domain.com", and so if there is something on "somepart.domain.com" they disagree with (say, adult content), they will blame "domain.com" and complain to you, and/or your registrar, about said content.
- ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
  Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan
JohnFen 2y ago
As others have said, it depends on what you mean by "safe". I've been asked for things like this with my domains before, and usually I've declined. Not for safety reasons, but for coherency reasons. If the redirect is to a site that is both on-topic for my site and the other site is noncommercial and/or by someone I already have a relationship with, I'm more likely to agree to it. If it's a purely transactional thing where my only interest in doing it would be for some sort of reward (in money, attention, whatever), then I'm not likely to agree because I think it dilutes the value of my domain.
- ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
  Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan
KomoD 2y ago
I wouldn't do it, that sounds sketchy. You'd risk domain suspension, maybe even legal issues depending on what they host on it.
- ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
  Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan
runjake 2y ago
I would not do this without appropriate compensation and a written agreement, if at all. What's the incentive for you?
- ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
  Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan
toast0 2y ago
You need to be very careful with cookies. I wouldn't do it unless there's a real compelling business reason, and even then, when I've done it in the past, we did it with a totally different domain. Ex: I worked at yahoo travel, travel.yahoo.com, we did cobranded pages with vendors; cruise bookings happened on cruises.travel.yahoo.net I've also seen integration specific domains get used, but ownership of the domain can get complicated, IMHO a subdomain is the right thing to use, but it shouldn't be your primary user-facing domain.
- ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
  Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan
gtirloni 2y ago
Nobody legit approaches anyone to do this.
- ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
  Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan
dmvjs 2y ago
is it safe depends on how you define safe did anyone did it yes
- ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
  Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan
chippyty 2y ago
It probably is a way of circumventing some browser settings that like: ``` Isolate requests to First Party domains ``` It doesn't sound right, and honestly i don't need to tell you that they can change the contents there whenever they want, or start a mail server sending emails on behalf of your subdomain(?) I mean i can see countless reasons not to. Not to mention competitors who want to de-rank your domain. The human nature is bad, "homo hominis lupus" said a guy....
ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan
- dcminter 2y ago
  What's the use case for them needing a subdomain of yours where they control the DNS though? If you have the slightest doubt (the use of aggregators to get job postings sure sounds iffy to me) you're probably better off continuing your existing trajectory. I like your site's premise btw; I've long thought the route to knock LinkedIn off their perch was via resumé curation as a first step. Incidentally your cut&paste reply to every response here looks a bit spammy. Not really necessary IMO.
ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
Thanks for your replies, everyone. I added the context to get a clearer picture.
burnwiz 2y ago
no have not seen any one

bestham 2y ago

What is your definition of safe? You are now tainting your domain with whatever they end up serving on that sub-domain.

pwg 2y ago

> Is it safe That depends upon your definition of "safe". Note that, for most web users, they will see "somepart.domain.com" as just another part of "domain.com", and so if there is something on "somepart.domain.com" they disagree with (say, adult content), they will blame "domain.com" and complain to you, and/or your registrar, about said content.

ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan

JohnFen 2y ago

As others have said, it depends on what you mean by "safe". I've been asked for things like this with my domains before, and usually I've declined. Not for safety reasons, but for coherency reasons. If the redirect is to a site that is both on-topic for my site and the other site is noncommercial and/or by someone I already have a relationship with, I'm more likely to agree to it. If it's a purely transactional thing where my only interest in doing it would be for some sort of reward (in money, attention, whatever), then I'm not likely to agree because I think it dilutes the value of my domain.

ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan

KomoD 2y ago

I wouldn't do it, that sounds sketchy. You'd risk domain suspension, maybe even legal issues depending on what they host on it.

ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan

runjake 2y ago

I would not do this without appropriate compensation and a written agreement, if at all. What's the incentive for you?

ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan

toast0 2y ago

You need to be very careful with cookies. I wouldn't do it unless there's a real compelling business reason, and even then, when I've done it in the past, we did it with a totally different domain. Ex: I worked at yahoo travel, travel.yahoo.com, we did cobranded pages with vendors; cruise bookings happened on cruises.travel.yahoo.net I've also seen integration specific domains get used, but ownership of the domain can get complicated, IMHO a subdomain is the right thing to use, but it shouldn't be your primary user-facing domain.

ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan

gtirloni 2y ago

Nobody legit approaches anyone to do this.

ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan

dmvjs 2y ago

is it safe depends on how you define safe did anyone did it yes

ResumeFromSpace 2y ago
Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan

chippyty 2y ago

It probably is a way of circumventing some browser settings that like: ``` Isolate requests to First Party domains ``` It doesn't sound right, and honestly i don't need to tell you that they can change the contents there whenever they want, or start a mail server sending emails on behalf of your subdomain(?) I mean i can see countless reasons not to. Not to mention competitors who want to de-rank your domain. The human nature is bad, "homo hominis lupus" said a guy....

ResumeFromSpace 2y ago

Sorry for long reply. I think I need to give more context here. So I own resume builder - resumefromspace.com The guy approaches me and says he has some job postings. He uses some kind of aggregator to get those. He displays them on big website (FAANG type). Let's say I type in "React engineer" in Bing search and they have employment TAB, where they show his job postings. When user clicks on that posting he is redirected to jobs.resumefromspace.com/jobId=123 where they will see: - Header logo - that would be my logo with option to create resume - Job listing - where they would see job listing - Apply button - button to apply Why I like it. - I think job search is relevant to my site (resume builder) - I will have additional traffic (like 5k visitors - if they need resume built) Why I don't like it - Google may rank be down (for some reason ???). I have a good amount of organic traffic & I really like my small project. Thanks, Dan

dcminter 2y ago
What's the use case for them needing a subdomain of yours where they control the DNS though? If you have the slightest doubt (the use of aggregators to get job postings sure sounds iffy to me) you're probably better off continuing your existing trajectory. I like your site's premise btw; I've long thought the route to knock LinkedIn off their perch was via resumé curation as a first step. Incidentally your cut&paste reply to every response here looks a bit spammy. Not really necessary IMO.

ResumeFromSpace 2y ago

Thanks for your replies, everyone. I added the context to get a clearer picture.

burnwiz 2y ago

no have not seen any one