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Help choosing a tweaked .com or a better .net

by its
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Ok so I want to make a website. The website name is two words and gets a lot of searches every month. There are a few websites which happen to target the key words but more by coincidence than anything.

Lets pretend this website is 'green fish'.

Now I've contacted the owner of greenfish.com and he won't sell it unless for some stupid price like $16,000. I know that he bought it for $6000 after it expired. Although he plans to use it I doubt he has the skills or money to set it up. Hes been sitting on it for over a year and even the front page is just a 404 now instead of 'coming soon'.

I also contacted greenfish.net and managed to negotiate them from $6000 to $1200. Here is my question.

Do I buy greenfish.net or do I get mygreenfish.com for just 10 dollars since its available? Is it better to tweak the name and get a .com or buy the .net? If I choose the tweaked .com I will still be calling the site green fish.

What do you think? Any help would be really appreciated!

(Also first post, hi!)

its

(Edit: As one user pointed out greenfishxyz.com would probably be better than mygreenfish.com)
#choosing #net #tweaked
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by its View Post

    Do I buy greenfish.net
    Personally, I wouldn't dream of paying $1,200 to build my business on a domain-name of which someone else already owns the .com extension (I like selling domain-names for whatever I can get for them, but I have an aversion to paying more than reg-fee to buy them); but it's up to you, obviously.

    Originally Posted by its View Post

    or do I get mygreenfish.com for just 10 dollars since its available?
    I wouldn't.

    I'd make sure that the additional letters/word are after the keyword in the domain-name, not before it. I think even greenfish-xyz.com is a far better domain-name than mygreenfish.com, even with EMD's not being nearly as relevant/significant as they were.

    Originally Posted by its View Post

    What do you think? Any help would be really appreciated!
    It's mostly personal taste and preference, really. I don't think there are "right" and "wrong" answers to these things. A brandable name is perhaps more important and better, in the long run, than an EMD, anyway?

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    • Profile picture of the author its
      Thanks for the advice. Yeah I think I'd be more swayed to greenfishgo.com or something to that effect. So really it's a choice between that and greenfish.net.

      I'm thinking If I take out a trade mark, run with the domain for a few years I might have some claim to the domain. Whether I will offer him a decent price or just try and claim it is another picture. But right now no other site claims any trademark on the two words. I do live in the UK though which could be problematic.

      Thanks for the advice!
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  • Profile picture of the author its
    No one else?
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  • Profile picture of the author Jen Eick
    Well, e(name) or i(name) seem to be very popular. Could you do egreenfish.com or igreenfish.com?

    I've always heard a .com over a .net name, with a minimal # of letters possible, and no hyphens, are what counts in making a memorable domain name.
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