.biz Domain Names

If it is one letter .biz and it is still available, definitely go for it.

Definitely the latter, in my opinion.

There's no point in adding unnecessary letters/words to your domain if it's available for registration as-is with another perfectly good extension/TLD, such as .biz, .info and so on. Especially if the TLD relates to the nature/purpose of your site - which .biz clearly does in this case!

Don't worry about SEO concerns for using other, less popular gTLDs of this type; Google does not penalise them or otherwise put them at a disadvantage. That is a mere - albeit widely believed - myth.

This is because marketers don't use them for sites they want to rank, so there are far fewer of them there in the first place, not because they don't rank as well! :rolleyes:

Google and Matt Cutts have gone blue in the face from telling people at every conceivable opportunity, in writing, on video, in blogs etc. etc. that domain extensions don't affect SEO/ranking at all. (Apart from country-specific extensions on local Google searches within those specific countries, of course).

The members here who have previously worked on search engine algorithms invariably say the same, too.

And so do all the standard authority SEO text-books.

The idea that ".biz might not rank as well as .com" is simply an urban myth of internet marketing.

There may, in some cases, be other reasons for preferring a .com (such as resale), but SEO/ranking isn't one of them.

For ranking purposes, clearly the latter, in my opinion - the{two_words}.biz.

It's even better not to have the "the" in front of the keywords, if you can avoid it. "keywordkeywordextra.ext" is better for SEO than "extrakeywordkeyword.ext": in other words, having the major keyword at the start of the domain-name is better (unless the word "the" is actually part of the keyword).