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Starting a Website

by acmsu81
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Thinking about starting a website, but I notice the .com of the domain I want is taken even though it is not an active site.

I plan on trying to buy it from the person who currently has it.

A couple of questions:

1) Is .net, .org, etc okay if I decide to do that? I finally found a domain name I like.

2) If in the future, I want to transfer the site to a .com, is that relatively easy to do, or is that not possible? I figure it's possible, but I don't have much experience with creating websites so I figured I would ask.
#starting #website
  • Profile picture of the author chaotic squid
    To answer your questions.

    1.) Yes, using a different domain extension like .net or .org is fine

    2.) yes, very easy to transfer, you can do a redirect so people using the old name can also be redirected to the new domain.

    You've been here since 2012, get cracking!
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    • Profile picture of the author zcrafts
      Perfectly fine to use .net domain and move it to .com when you get it.

      I dont feel you need to worry much in this case.
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  • Profile picture of the author iVlog
    Beware that if you start your business on a .net or .org, you will always lose traffic to the .com

    And the more successefull your .net or .org website becomes, the more the .com owner will want for parting with his domain.

    If you can, always start on a dot com.
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  • Profile picture of the author iwankurniawan
    just in my humble opinion .... .net, .info or whatever except .com is great too.
    as far as your site give more value for your customer/visitor.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesJ
    Just on a side note. There are some great sites that generate domain name ideas based on your keywords. You really should be able to find a .com domain that is available.

    For example: namemesh.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Manish Sapkota
    .com domain name is better than .net and .org domain name.
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  • Profile picture of the author dlane1987
    yes thats fine Probloger does it
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  • Profile picture of the author Jennifer Boyatt
    For one of my sites, at least, I purchased all .com, .org, .net, etc. So no one else could have them. (Costs more money, of course, than just buying one.) And I "parked" the .org and .net onto the .com. So if anyone types in the .net or .org version, they end up at the .com anyway.
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