Examples of Domain Change for Big Brands
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Hi
I am trying to put together a case study with big brands that have changed their domain names over the last 2 years. So far I have:
guardian.co.uk -> theguardian.com
Are there any others you could think of? It'd be much appreciated!
Thanks,
C
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One we were watching, the Official site for Jehovah's Witnesses went from watchtower.org to jw.org with a major site redesign. What makes it an interesting case study is that it was a multi language site as well.
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here's the link to it --> http://moz.com/blog/domain-migration-lessons
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Hi Carlos,
SEOMoz.com to MOZ.com....fantastic step by step and case study also published in the blog area thanks to the wonderful Mozers
All really well documented and graphed so you can understand how you should go about such a drastic change with minimal impacts to your brand as well as your organic traffic.
Cheers,
K
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