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SEO - Search Enginge Optimization Question - Multiple Domain Names?

We are thinking about having several different domain names for the same website e.g. let's pretend I have a site called www.bestdoors.com and I would also like to access through the following urls french-door.net and internaldoor.com. The question is, is there any problem from the search engines perspective in having several domain names for the same website? We would not like to drop SEO ranking.

Public Comments

1. No. You will have one main domain name and the others will point to that one so the search engines should reference the main domains. It's fine. We do it.
2. I don't think there is, if you submit the all the names the fact that they all goto the same place should not matter
3. Yes. Let's say your first site is bestdoors and the othersite is french-door and both sites are IDENTICAL....Google will ban you because that would be considered "spamming". Your best bet would be to just make a new site...easier than you think but it will take awhile for it to rank well. The other option is just to have those domain names forward to your main site bestdoors. I have a site that you can look at for an example. My main site is www.austin-margarita-rentals.com I have a forwarding site of www.austinmargarita.com It just forwards the url to the same site thus no duplication. Email me at frozenfun at yahoo dot com if you would like....
4. First off... if you do individual sites and they all have the same content, they won't rank well at all. If they all have different content... you have to build up backlinks to all of them, work on off site factors and develop each site. I wouldn't make different sites. I would make one big informative site and work on making it a trusted site. Dividing your efforts would take more time and money to run and maintain. When you say access from... are you talking about a re-direct? If you aren't having different domains with no content forwarding to the one that does is a waste of money. There won't be any traffic coming from any of those URLs, unless they are already established sites. Even then, over time traffic will diminish.