(Entry was posted by E Dieter Marti on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 07/18/2019).

301 redirect between domains

I have a someblog .com domain and a someblog .net domain with a 301 redirect to the .com domain. The idea was to keep others from claiming the .net domain. Nowadays with all those extra TLDs it doesn`t seem to be much of an issue to me anymore. Are there any SEO or other reasons to keep and forwarding it? The forward has been in place for more than 10 years.

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Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

Jeremy L. Knauff: If you already have the domains, and itâ€™s something brandable, hold onto the various TLDs. But donâ€™t go overboard and buy up everything under the sun.
Scott Clark: No SEO benefit, but the primary TLDs in-pocket is a good strategic brand move. E.g. if you ended up selling the business, it would work in your favor for investors/buyers to have a primary TLD portfolio for the brand.. We usually only focus on .com, .net, .org, with plurals and singulars on the .com and any confusingly similar variations on the .com.
E Dieter Martin: Okay. Let me rephrase. Are there disadvantages to dropping it?
Jeremy L. Knauff: E Dieter Martin other than the fact that someone might buy them? No.
Roger Montti: Yes, there are many disadvantages.

Someone in another country picking it up and posting with it then others looking for your site finding the other one instead.

If you have a good brand name that`s unique, then snap up the country domains, too. It`s a pain when someone aggressive steals your great domain name idea and runs with it in another country.
Moe Rubenzahl: If it`s a strong, valuable brand, it makes sense to keep the major domains, just to keep the pests away. But only to a point -- I ran a multi-billion dollar company`s website and we had maybe 50 domains but even there, we stopped pursuing anything beyond the biggest TLDs.

If you`re a top consumer brand, then you aggressively pursue every cariant; bot for us, the top few will do.
Dixon Jones: Iâ€™d keep .com, .net .co.uk (as I am British) and maybe .org. Thatâ€™s about it. Also... use Majestic to check if there are any links to the .net version. Use the historic index. If there are, then yeh... thereâ€™s an actual reason to keep it. Editadd: I have a small stake in Majestic
Richard Hearne: "use Majestic"... cough, splutter Anything we should know here just for transparency? ;)
Dixon Jones: Sure. I assumed everyone new by now :)
E Dieter Martin: I just hovered over your name and there it was "Brand Ambassador"