This is definately something to make you think for the future.
This happened to me a couple of years ago, when I was the Network and Web Administrator for a Mobile Computing company in Longboat Key, FL.
We had 120+ domains, all pointing into the main "company name" domain.
Google indexed all of the sites, all 121+ and it was awesome. We had so many visitors, sales, etc. We were high on the hog.
Then one day they stopped.
ALL 121+ domains were dropped TOTALLY from Google.
WOW, this was rough. What I did was stopped ALL redirects from the 120+ sites, and just used the company name as the main site.
Then, I made an individual web for each 120+ "secondary" domains, and made them product specific.
So, you would go to companyname.com, and get the full montey, but if you went to additionalcompanydomains.com, you would get an individual product group website, individual from the main, but still connected to the SQL dbase and cart.
Google loved this "niche" idea that I was doing, and we were re-indexed in 2 months, and all the 120+ other domains were re-indexed as well.
Note: When I set these domains up, I also used an individual IP for each domain.
I hope this helps someone.
Tim
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