.net or .com
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- agentfour
the .com of the domain i want to register is taken, so im trying to decide whether to register a .net version or to hyphenate the words for a .com.
Would you use a .net address for something you want to become well known, or a hyphenated version??
sorry if this is a silly question.
- rafalski0
http://www.skyscanner.net seem to have acquired the .com after they established the .net address to which they redirect anyway.
hyphenating looks worse than .net imo
- Complexfruit0
go with the .net
- Fariska0
Go with the .net one.
Btw, the .com is a company/something that would be related and easily confused with the .net or totally different. Because if it where in someway similar I would go with a different name.
- michaels0
i would go for a different name that would allow you to get the .com and .net
and, no hyphens
- rafalski0
listen to michaels, .net will be confused with .com and hyphenated domains will be confused with nonhyphen ones.
I just bought a .com, .net, .org, .info, .eu and a bunch of country ones for a new brand.
You have to stretch your head a little to come up with a name that has such availability, but I guess it is worth it.
- agentfour0
thanks for the opinions all.
we've been trying hard to come up with a .com there are a couple which get re-directed to shit like this:
and ive tried the whois thing but i dont know how to go about buying domains from there....and im guessing it would be pretty expensive.
- tomkat0
.net is fine
- Jaline0
I recently bought a hyphenated one instead of a .net, but that's because it's a personal site and it's not as important to have an easily-accessible site.
The suggestions above are correct in that you don't want clients and other people confusing hyphenated names with non-hyphenated, .com with .net, etc. It also depends on the name, because if it's hyphenated already then go with that one.
But I'm guessing it isn't, so go with .net
- flavorful0
I went with .net, and with a hyphenated .com.
I also went .net at a time where supposedly most people did not know there were anything outside of .com.
.nets are perfectly fine now though, heh.
Also, it does help if you are not really similar at all to your .com counterpart.
- OSFA0
tell flav the domain name and I'm sure he'll get everyhting related to it for ya.
;)
- flavorful0
Haha, I am here to help...
- OSFA0
btw, what happened to HumanMale, is he really gone?
- flavorful0
I guess, he never responded to his thread that he created, haha.
Meh.
... hahaha.
- agentfour0
yeh the .com that i want isnt really the same sorta thing. But its not like polar opposites or something. i guess if someone heard of the site and then went to the .com they may think its correct until they click past the homepage.
- Jaline0
the .com's I'm interested in are always just parked, thus forcing me to buy the hyphenated or .net ones.
DAMN THEM.
I still prefer .com though, since many folk don't believe any other extensions exist.
- mg330
I've had mg33.net since maybe 2000 because the .com was taken.
I've been looking for really creative domains recently and it seems like EVERYTHING is taken. I think these huge companies just run a computer that thinks up all possible combinations and registers them.
I was happy to recently get randomtransmission.com which I use for my blog.