Just recently, I tried to look for some great domain for my new website ideas. I wanted a strong keyword domain name because this website is highly dependent on search engine ranking. Usually I would use Ajax Whois because the response is much faster.
When I am searching for great domain names, like always, most dot Com are no longer available. Therefore, the next question is “Would you settle for a .Net domain?”, or maybe .Org/.Info/.Us. I am concern about losing some of my traffic to dotCom because people tend to just include .Com in their url address. Here is my evaluation:-
Advantage
- Usually available for 2 letter keyword (not highly competitive keyword)
- Equally strong for search engine (except for regional domain / country domain)
- You get a domain that tends to be shorter and easily remembered
Disadvantage
- Traffic leak to .com
- When the similar .com does a website that is better but tailor to the similar visitor, your website may seem more like a duplicate of the .com
- Less value for your domain
I have actually did my conclusion and finally bought a .com domain that is longer. But would you do the same?
