[Hidden-tech] .com/.co/.org/.biz/.net/.info/.tv/.mobi etc.

[Jordan Lee Wagner]

Depends on a lot of things:

Are you in the USA only?  If you are trying to do business 
in canada and france, you might want to show commitment to 
those markets by getting the .ca and .fr (in addition to 
your .com).

Are you extremely local business only (like a plumber or  
handyman)?   Find out who has all of the other extensions.  
If none of them are competitive with you, then you don't 
care about people finding them instead of you. (You could 
even make a deal with them for refering leads to you.)

Is your product political or patriotic?  TaxAttorney.us or 
flags.us or ElectionNotes.us or PropertyLaw.us might 
actually make more sense.

Even if you are local (like a restaurant), if you think you 
might someday franchise or widely distribute private label 
products (your popular barbecue sauce) then you must have 
the .com

Is the domain name brandable or generic?  If brandable, then 
perhaps you can get away with an odd extension.  For 
example, if everybody in Newark NJ knows your longstanding 
brick-and-mortar local auto parts business by the name of 
Polk Street Parts, and PolkStreetParts.com is owned by a 
kitchen appliance repair parts business in Chicago, you 
might go for the .net and rebrand as The Polk Street Parts 
Network.  But If the domain name is generic, you MUST have 
the dot-com.  Soup.com is worth millions.  But it's because 
of the type-in traffic.  If you are competing with 
Campbells, there is no point in owning soup.biz nor 
soup.org, etc.

Jordan Lee Wagner
Trupod Internet Services
sales at Trupod.com




On 4/13/2012 9:28 AM, Charles Uchu Strader wrote:
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> Some generally things to keep in mind:
>
> 1) All two-letter codes .co, .tv, .uk, etc are all 
> controlled by individual governments.   Some are 
> restricted to use by residents/business in the home 
> countries and others have been opened up to global 
> registration for income purposes of those countries.
>
> For instance .tv is a great income source for the small 
> island nation of Tuvalu.
>
> And .co is controlled by Colombia, South America in reality.
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> Whereas .co.uk relevant for companies in the United 
> Kingdom as much as .com is for companies in the US.
>
> 2) The endings of domains will continue to fragment, just 
> as phone numbers have gotten longer and longer over the 
> decades and area codes split, etc.
>
> They've been internationalized in the last year, so there 
> are now even dot-endings in non-english/latin characters.
>
> 3) There are no formal restrictions about who can own 
> .net, .org, .biz.
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> 4) Choosing a domain name is both a social-cultural thing 
> as well as something that impacts how search engines find 
> your site.
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> Charles
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> On 4/12/12 8:10 AM, Dede Wilson wrote:
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>> Would love to hear what you all think. Other than .com, 
>> what do you think are the most valuable business 
>> suffixes? There are so many now, its a little crazy. Some 
>> are obviously geared toward a particular arena like ".tv" 
>> but in general, do you order them in your mind in 
>> importance?
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