SlideShowPro News

06.14.05 | slideshowpro.com

When registering a domain for SlideShowPro earlier this year, ".net" was the only decent domain available. ".com" had already been registered, and wouldn't be available for quite some time (if ever). As luck would have it though, the owner of "slideshowpro.com" wasn't doing anything with it -- the domain merely pointed to one of those generic registrar search portal pages. That is, until today. I've successfully acquired slideshowpro.com, and have temporarily set it up as a redirect to the existing .net content, and will soon work towards moving everything under the .com domain.

Part of the reason why I wanted .com was because of the most popular search engine queries used to find this site. Day after day, the top three search engine queries have been "slideshowpro," "slideshow pro," and "slide show pro." Chances are, half of these queries were by people who had heard or seen the name and tried to load the most obvious domain -- slideshowpro.com -- but had to resort to a search engine to find the actual ".net" domain.

I also wanted to protect my marketplace identity, for lord knows how angry I'd be if someone else acquired it and released a competing product with the same name. Plus, it just sounds better.

So no need to change your bookmarks just yet, but items may shift while in flight.