.com vs. .co.uk and others?
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- fredddddd
Is .com seen as "American" around the world?
Do people in England usually think of .co.uk first for example? Would it be bad to have a .com for a foreign company?
- kalkal0
.com is fine anywhere as far as I know, it's obviously harder to get the url you want with it though.
I always find .co.uk a pain to type most the time :P
- trooperbill0
no .com is universal just like .net and .org
ppl buy .co.uk either because the .com has already been registered by someone else or theyre cheapskates and cant afford that additional £5 lol
- ribit0
Sometimes depends on the service you are offering... for example if it's a regional service you might prefer the .co.uk
http://www.three.com
http://www.three.co.uk
- raf0
It varies by country, .com is far from the first choice in many countries if you're doing anything local.
I would even say that unless it is a global brand, a business might look less credible if it came with a .com and without a local domain.
- set0
I guess it's ideal to have both but the .com is usually tried first and is more desirable in my English opinion, especially now must phones and tenets have a .com key
- Tablets*set
- Hold down the .com key, and a fly-out appears with .co.uk, if you've got your regional settings done for the UK.Continuity
- Well, for iOS, anywayContinuity
- ribit0
I think its sad they designed a logical system with .com, .net, .edu, .org and all the country top-level-domains, and then everyone just goes for .com because its perceived as the most prestigious (and the US sort of appropriated .com for itself instead of using a country-specific TLD).
- damn you, Al Goreribit
- The US sort of fucking invented it too.monospaced
- That's no excuse. (note who invented the web)ribit
- actually we could use a .global TLDribit
- It was "invented" by a that Brit working at CERN, but implemented by HIM at MIT (US).monospaced
- 'HIM' sounds like 'GOD'ribit
- hehe, I would italics if I couldmonospaced
- raf0
It seems like there is an agreement among the Brits here that .com is ok for a first choice for a local thing. Just bear in mind it's often not the case in countries that actually do have a top-level domain that people can buy subdomains for.
- MHDC0
Surprised no one mentioned the trend of implementing the extensions within a company name/url all the .ly's and .it's
- nato0
wtf.uk
- orrinward20
If possible I'd always go with a .com as it's what peoples first guess is.
- i_monk0
irrelevant://irrelevant.sitename...