How to handle multiple domains?

[srbello]

Hello,

We are working on migrating a website to a new web server.  In addition to the primary website domain, there are several other variations that are owned.  Is okay if we point all of our domains to the same IP address as our primary domain, and then setup 301 redirects to the primary domain?  Are there any risks in doing this?

There may be about 100 domains.  Many of them are different country TLD for same primary .com domain, others including misspellings of primary .com, and some that are not so related to primary domain.

Thank you in advance for your response!

[KristinaKledzik]

Hey Srbello,

You should be fine, although if your domains are currently on different servers and are linking to each other, there's a chance that moving them to the same server will lower the value of those links.

This has been discussed more in depth here: https://moz.com/community/q/multiple-domains-on-1-ip-address

Now, as to your redirect question: do you want to merge all of these sites to one domain? Some of them? I'm not sure what your goal is, when you said you'd want to 301 redirect to the primary domain.

Best,

Kristina

[NickLeRoy]

While I don't see much of an issue of pointing them all to the new server, why not have a global 301 redirect implemented from your registrar?  That way you can bypass even needing to set up each domain within your server configs.