Difference between revisions of "Rating subdomains"
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:Similarly, the reputation of each subdomain contributes to the parent domain's reputation. If a domain has lots of untrustworthy subdomains, its reputation will suffer, and, therefore, the reputation of any new subdomains will suffer as well. We designed this logic within the WOT system to model the way trust works in real life. | :Similarly, the reputation of each subdomain contributes to the parent domain's reputation. If a domain has lots of untrustworthy subdomains, its reputation will suffer, and, therefore, the reputation of any new subdomains will suffer as well. We designed this logic within the WOT system to model the way trust works in real life. | ||
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| + | : ... the owner of the domain also controls the www subdomain. Since the www subdomain is commonly used as an alias for the main website hosted on the domain, we believe they should also share the reputation. | ||
| + | : - Sami ''27 May 2009'' | ||
| + | : forum discussion: [http://www.mywot.com/forum/3513-subdomain-question-www subdomain question - "www."] | ||
For more reference, please read these blog posts: | For more reference, please read these blog posts: | ||
Revision as of 02:13, 10 August 2011
As explained on WOT's main Support page section: Rating Websites
- How does the system rate subdomains?
- Subdomains are often used with free hosting and social networking sites, for example. The WOT community can rate subdomains in exactly the same way as the members rate other domains. If WOT doesn’t have enough ratings for a specific subdomain, the subdomain inherits the parent domain's reputation. Once the system considers there to be enough supporting evidence to calculate a separate reputation for the subdomain, WOT will start to use it.
- Similarly, the reputation of each subdomain contributes to the parent domain's reputation. If a domain has lots of untrustworthy subdomains, its reputation will suffer, and, therefore, the reputation of any new subdomains will suffer as well. We designed this logic within the WOT system to model the way trust works in real life.
- The www subdomain
- ... the owner of the domain also controls the www subdomain. Since the www subdomain is commonly used as an alias for the main website hosted on the domain, we believe they should also share the reputation.
- - Sami 27 May 2009
- forum discussion: subdomain question - "www."
For more reference, please read these blog posts:
- The Neighbourhood
- How many sites do we know?
- discusses how reputations traverse the domain hierarchy
see also: Shared domains
