net,org,info,co domains

[AdamMaxum]

So while doing keyword research you come across great keywords and potential domain names.

What do you do when the domain name you want is taken with the .com extension, and you visit the website and it's not being used, and has no content.

Is it worth it to buy the .net or .org or .co extension and compete for the top spot in the search engines?

I suppose you take the risk that the .com name could eventually try and compete at some point, but I think that risk is minimal imo.

Are there any other disadvantages with any of the other extensions that I should know about besides people not remembering to use the .net or .org? Do search engines rank them the same? Are there any hosting issues or transfer of ownership issues with them? Things like that.

 

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[rocksolid]

If you go to Whois Lookup - Domain Names Search, Registration, & Availability | Whois.net you can look up the owner of a specific domain. You can try and make them an offer for the domain if you really want it that bad. Most people are not big fans of other extentions other then .com.

 

[domular]

In my experience .net and .org are ranked just as well as .coms but as you mentioned in the US people will always assume it's a .com if they are doing it from memory. That being said most people come to sites from links, not typing them in. In the US I would avoid any other extensions.

 

[murlin99]

I agree with rocksolid 100%. If someone is trying to remember your domain name most of the time they are going to add .com on the end of it, and who knows what kind of page they will end up on. When I registered my wife's blog domain a long time ago, rhondasworld.com we did not know that a couple years before we registered it had been some kind of porn site and was blacklisted all over the place, it took about two years for that to calm down. The point of the example is not knowing what may be or may have been at the .com address. As far as search engines, they rank every thing pretty much the same regardless of the extension, except maybe the new .xxx extension which may get treated different since the content is pretty much known to be all adult oriented.

 

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[AdamMaxum]

Yeah with everything based online with no word of mouth advertising I won't have to worry about people remembering to type in .com because they'll almost always be clinking a link pointing to the other extension.

Most of the websites I create are designed to be built up, ranked, and sold. I believe that if you can show the site is receiving traffic and making money it won't matter much to the buyer, but i could be wrong. I guess it depends on what their intent for the site would be.

For a website that I plan on creating a brand (grow it big) though I would definitely want/need the .com extension.

 

[thebusiness7]

try to stick to the .com domain names.. If the one you are looking for is taken, try to switch up the name by putting an (i) or (e) or (123) somewhere in the name.. Here are some examples of domain names that I was looking at today on Sedo.com that are up for sale:

UsaBusinessCorner.com
UsaTravelCorner.com
iFindMarriage.com
CarService123.com
CorporateGuests.com

notice the usage of the (123) and the (i)

 

[BeachBoy]

I would not really care about the .com being used (especially if it's a crap link farm).

usually when you get those, you go back to google and find out the real site, wether it's .net, .org, .us, .me, .tv, whatever.

 

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[domular]

As far as search engines, they rank every thing pretty much the same regardless of the extension, except maybe the new .xxx extension which may get treated different since the content is pretty much known to be all adult oriented.

I don't believe that to be true. Info is a discount extension that was hit real hard by affiliate and built for adsense sites because you could register a domain for like $3. I can't prove that Google still penalizes them but it looks like they did at one time Google Temporarily Purges .info Domain Names | SEO Book.com

 

[roc]

COM, NET, ORG, are all good, I even like an INFO address, since you can pick them up really cheap. Forget about co address, an absolute waste. Roc

 

[AdamMaxum]

interesting article domular although there didn't appear to be a consensus one way or the other. It would make sense that google would do something like that with .info just because they're so cheap and therefore easy to slap up bogus content.

thebusiness7 - do you think that creating a new word or adding numbers to it would be more beneficial then choosing an alternate extension? what would rank higher hypothetically speaking if we had the same work and content put onto a site but one was named iarticlesubmissions.com(articlesubmissions123.com) vs articlesubmissions.org (or net) and we were targeting the keyword phrase article submissions?

 

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[roc]

Unique content

The more I read this post, it me thinking about one thing I forgot. If your providing info such as a blog, forum, etc, and actually providing good info to your end user, unique content, you will not get googled slapped and will rank higher then the crap sites, IMHO. Roc

 

[FastNAwesome]

.COM is king. Period.


About mentioned extensions, these all would be TLD's so technically I see no difference. They also may be good for SEO, but also can cause TM infringement trouble.

It's very frequent in adult industry, that all versions of a domain are taken - by just some plain affiliate sites. So I'd say that it probably can help your SEO.