thanks opti... I read the whole thing

Sorry Plateman.. I probably wasn't clear.. I was being sceptical of some of the information in that thread, and meant I would take most notice of what Bill said when deciding how much GG should worry about the downside of using his domain like that. ;-)

I knew you had read it. :)

One thing to keep in mind is that the way that those extra domains are set up is as an alias on the same IP which from what Ive been able to tell Google will just basically ignore understanding that they are for trademark protection. They do not have any html on the actual domain as well as no links pointing to them normally