Are You Down with OPD?

Posted by Paul Colligan on Monday, March 20, 2006

Are you down with OPD?

(Other People’s Domains)

I am surprised how some of the smartest people in this industry are willing to hand over their Podcast domains to other people. I don’t believe anyone has anything but the best of intentions but there is something about this road to hell that concerns me.

Too many things can go wrong here.

This kind of goes along with my Network questions. I get what is in it for the network owners – what is in it for the Podcasters?

Has anyone seen a decent check worth assigning their show to another domain – or is it all promises at this point? What happens if someone “leaves” OPD? Will they automatically forward things along – or are all your promotion efforts to this point moot?

And, yes, I’m slowly cleaning out my legacy Feedburner links all over the search engines. If I can’t make their MyBrand work (and I’m pretty sure I can), I’ll even be leaving them.

Too much is at stake here.

Technorati Tags: , , ,

  • http://www.feedburner.com Matt Shobe

    Hello Paul,

    It’s definitely your brand, and you have a right to present to the world as you see fit; If you need any help with our MyBrand service, please let us know. The key part of MyBrand set up is getting the CNAME DNS entry syntax right, as it’s highly hosting provider-dependent. A quick consultation with your host is probably warranted.

    Best,

    Matt Shobe
    FeedBurner Co-Founder

  • http://www.colligan.com colligan

    Always great to hear from you Matt. My best to Rick and Traci.

    P