www.com -or- www.org?
- Thread starter wturner
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.org is the preferred extension for non-profits. .com is the most well known commercial extension. finding the name you want with a .com extension is becoming increasingly difficult. .net may be a better way to go for you if you cannot get the .com version of what you want.
a suggestion, if you find the domain you want on .com ; buy the others as well and have them pointing to your .com
( i.e your .net, .org, .biz, etc ) so you don't have someone banking on your success.
( i.e your .net, .org, .biz, etc ) so you don't have someone banking on your success.
Rugbier said:
x2. Most people are used to a .com address. If you do have one registered, especially a .com, make sure you cover as many others as Rugbier mentioned as possible. That way people do not capitalize on your ad, but end up at someone else's site.
When considering a domain extension it should always be .com, .net, .org - in that order.
.com is like the default that anyone thinks of if they remember your domain.
Yes, you could buy them all but in almost 10 years of Internet Marketing experience it's really just a waste of money to buy them all (in my opinion) although at this point you likely already have, right?
Here's a tip: if you find someone has the .com that you want, Google now considers a hyphen (-) as a space in domain names. So if it's a multi-word domain you could get the something-something.com domain. (I've done this and picked up so VERY hot properties).
Good luck!
- Lee Collins
.com is like the default that anyone thinks of if they remember your domain.
Yes, you could buy them all but in almost 10 years of Internet Marketing experience it's really just a waste of money to buy them all (in my opinion) although at this point you likely already have, right?
Here's a tip: if you find someone has the .com that you want, Google now considers a hyphen (-) as a space in domain names. So if it's a multi-word domain you could get the something-something.com domain. (I've done this and picked up so VERY hot properties).
Good luck!
- Lee Collins
It stands for whatever you want. We started with discoweb.org because .com and .net was already taken. We picked up discoweb.net when the previous owner didn't renew a couple of years ago. discoweb.com still point to some online record store in Spain.
Back in the day--up until 1995 or so--it used to be free to register domain names. There was this text file that you would edit with your registration and e-mail it to Internic to get your domains. Anyone could get a .com (commercial) but you had to prove that you were a non-profit or a network provider to get the .org and .net suffixes. I registered some really sweet names. I had snell.com, cjs.com, grateful.com, elite.com, and a bunch of others. Then in '95, they started charging $70/year for domains. This was before the days of GoDaddy and $8 registrations. I was a poor college student and couldn't afford $2000 in fees so, like a total idiot, I let all my domains go.
I feel lucky that I still have chrissnell.com, blueaspen.* and island.nu amongst a few others.
I feel lucky that I still have chrissnell.com, blueaspen.* and island.nu amongst a few others.