DDD “View Objects”?

Question

Given an application that involves, say, Companies, I might have a Company class. I will have a data access layer that populates a List . However, there will be

Answer 1

That sounds like a reasonable approach to me.

Later on, if the customer comes to you asking for your SearchResult to display something unrelated to the Company model - something crazy like the number of nearby ice cream shops you'll have a much easier time appending this to your CompanySearchResult than your domain object.