I own several variations on my domain name that all 301 redirect to the main site.   The problem is that I have very little visibility into how often these are actually used.    How do I set up some sort of reporting on these to know how often users type them in or link to them?I haven't found a way to get this information out of Google Analytics, nor have I found any sort of reporting from GoDaddy where these redirects are currently hosted.
How to get statistics and reporting on alternate domain names that you own?
domains;redirects;analytics
One way of getting Google Analytics to show alternate domain name usage: treat the alternate domain names as marketing campaigns and append Google Analytics campaign tracking parameters to the URLs. For example, if my domain name  is example.com and my alternate domain name is example.net, I can configure the redirect like this: http://example.net/ http://example.com/?utm_campaign=domainnames&utm_medium=domain&utm_source=example.netThen I get the reporting that I want in Google Analytics under Acquisition  Campaigns.There are some downsides to this:Redirects like this are difficult to implement correctly.  You want the following cases to work and they may not all do so using many redirect mechanisms:http://example.net/path/doc.html http://example.com/path/doc.html?utm_campaign=domainnames&utm_medium=domain&utm_source=example.nethttp://example.net/?a=b http://example.com/?a=b&utm_campaign=domainnames&utm_medium=domain&utm_source=example.netSearch engine bots may also see these parameters and not be able to assign link juice properly because of them.   The meta rel canonical tag on all landing pages would help with this.