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How Many Domains and Websites Does Your Church Have?
I was asked yesterday how many domains and sites that my church has. Honestly, I had no idea, so I had to ask my team.
I now wish I didn’t ask.
How many domains does your church own? And how many sites does your church run?
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So, how many does NPM have?
We've got like 250+ domains and 50+ sites.
We have a few that we use depending on what is going on.
http://crosspointlive.com is our main domain.
We own http://ChristmasOffering.com for our Christmas Offering, then we have others:
we also own the .net & .org of our domain.
SmallGroups.Crosspointlive.com
CrosspointKickball.com
30daybiblechallenge.com
CrosspointIronmen.com
does Facebook and Twitter count? Because then it’d be http://facebook.com/CrosspointLive and http://twitter.com/CrosspointLive
whew…
Are domains good? or would subdomains be better? Or slashes?
We don't have too many, really. We have 5 which all point to the same page (that is, 4 of them redirect). The 4 that redirect are sorta pointless — I doubt anyone ever types them in, and they of course don't show up in search engines.
or, at least, not yet…
If you're referring to the us not having too many, you're very right. Having finally convinced the powers that be that the Internet is a good place, I'm now terrified of the monster I created.
Well in that case, we don't want those other ones to show up. They just redirect. I don't even know why we own them… Brand security, maybe?
We have around 75 if you count all the TLDs (.com,.org, etc).
We have close to 30 domains and 8 sites. Just trimmed some domains out two weeks ago.
We've got a few:
http://crosspointlive.com (and .net and .org)
http://ChristmasOffering.com
http://30dayBibleChallenge.com
and then a few subdomains and special blogs and such… I even have one for my Kickball Small Group.
do facebook and twitter count? If so then we have about 8 domains in all.
Do any of you have "special" email domains that aren't necessary public to the congregation? (You don't need to post them obviously)
We've got a few:
http://crosspointlive.com (and .net and .org)
http://ChristmasOffering.com
http://30dayBibleChallenge.com
and then a few subdomains and special blogs and such… I even have one for my Kickball Small Group.
do facebook and twitter count? If so then we have about 8 domains in all.
Do any of you have "special" email domains that aren't necessary public to the congregation? (You don't need to post them obviously)
in terms of TLDs, it's like 150, how many do we use, maybe 25, but even that's too many, we're cutting back and simplifying down to maybe 5
I keep ours pretty simple. So we only have 3. I don't see us ever going any hire then 6 or 7.
Wow. I feel woefully underdone! We have one. We have a couple subdomains, and a blogspot or two, fan page on Facebook, but that's it.
ah, one is a great place to start!
I wish I knew the answer to that.
Right now I buy at least one domain every week.
I have launched WordpressMU to put all the 'rogue sites' in one place
I'm hoping to keep it to 2 (.com and .org) w/ the .com being external and the .org being internal.
Then perhaps we'll use special promo domains in the future, but keep it to two primary ones.
I think we have 6-10. 2 being used.
A few of them can be made available if needed. I know that NPM would love to have norcrosschurch.com url for its Gwinnett Campus
This is where rumors start, right?
haha!… you're dangerous.
We've got two — one for the church and one for the school (along with a subdomain for a special charity).