spacing in domain name postings - why?

[domainstack]

I've noticed that the convention seems to be to post a domain name with a space before the extension - for example, people will post "example .com" rather than "example.com". Is this for purposes of clarity, or to stop erroneous clicks compromising the T&Cs or domain parking services? Many parking services seem to include conditions that traffic can only be direct type-in traffic, or through genuine search results, so I had assumed that this was possibly the reason, but then thought I was perhaps overcomplicating things, and it was just to make it easier to scan a posting and pick out domains that are actually useful.

 

[rob]

That, and to stop some names being googled.

 

[domainstack]

Heh. It's not *that* hard to copy, paste, and delete a space, though, surely!?

 

[grantw]

Heh. It's not *that* hard to copy, paste, and delete a space, though, surely!?

No, but then its not a click is it, it's a direct type-in I think the main reason is to stop domains getting indexed by google as Rob said.

Grant

 

[grantw]

Also, it doesnt really work as can be seen on the second result here where I used a space and / in the extension:

idownload.co.uk - Google Search

Grant

 

[Alex-Z]

Sorry for the basic question, but I don't really know why you wouldn't want google to index your domains.

 

[grantw]

I'm sure there are a few reasons eg. If you sell a domain on here for £50, the new owner may not want that sale to be seen by any future buyer as it may affect the sale price etc etc

Grant

 

[domainstack]

No, but then its not a click is it, it's a direct type-in I think the main reason is to stop domains getting indexed by google as Rob said.

Grant

Ah ha. I thought he meant googled as in people copy-pasting into google, not google indexing. Much clearer now!