.net domain or .com with (-) in it?

I wouldn't use either of the others, then. That's all downside, loss and disadvantage. I'd think again. It makes little sense to build a business like that on a domain-name of which the .com variant already belongs to somebody else.

But out of the two you've mentioned, personally I'd take the hyphenated .com by far. Certainly not the .net with a .com belonging to someone else.

(Not that SEO has anything much to do with this decision anyway, presumably, but all international TLD's are exactly equal for all Google ranking purposes, and hyphens are also completely irrelevant to SEO - if you want to look for them, there are various links to Matt Cutts/Google videos down in the SEO section explaining all this in great detail).

I would go with the .net name. I hate domains with the - in them.

I personally would go with .net .. hyphenated domain names just don't seem to work in terms of page ranking ..for me anyway

multipleincomestreams.net is already taken. If you own it, use it.

Meharis

By the way, I forgot to add: The site that I'm creating is NOT my main site. It is only the domain I'm going to use for a salespage of a product. This means, I don't really care that much about SEO. I'm going to market this page with Adwords, Banner ads, from my Autoresponder etc.

However, of course if people search for my book/course in google, I want my sales page to be ranked number one.

Another unfortunate thing however: A movie is now being made (and released this year) which has the same name as my course. This also skyrocketed the price of the .com domain of which I hired a broker to buy for me (it was originally worth like 100 bucks...now it's up to 10 grand practically overnight.)

I agree with Alexa.

Maybe you should come up with a better domain name that works with .com. If a movie was made with the same name, you don't want to have lawyers involved over this.

Go to thesaurus.com and play around with the words "income" and "multiple" and you can easily find 2-word domain names with a .com

I can't remember ever creating and naming a product without securing the .com domain name first. At one point in time I even used to secure the .net .info. .org. etc, but I think I was getting carried away as I just ended up with hundreds of domains that I never used, and that was just getting ridiculous. Short version, what I do now when coming up with titles is making sure that the matching .com is available first.

I dont believe the hyphen is a disadvantage - just look at your url for any post or page - it has a hyphen separating the key words. .com has a bit more "gravitas"or public perception of superiority, so I would be comfortable with .com with hyphens.

Most people do not remember to add hyphens.

The .NET is much better IF the .COM is not doing something similar to what you want to do. If the .COM is too much like your site, you will confuse people and just be giving free visitors to the other site.

Actually I request you to always choose short domain names which is easily remembered by your clients or users.

If your goal is search engine traffic and no one will ever TYPE your domain, then the domain doesn't matter. Call it pink-marijuana-bunnies.com if you want, no one cares. But if you are building a BRAND then you should always own the .com, hyphenated and unhyphenated, and if someone else owns yourbrand.com then rename your brand. The absolute worst thing that can happen is to spend money building name reputation, only you have some of that go to the dotcom owner.

I say this coming from a direct response TV background. All of the infomercials you see on TV, and you never see productname.com advertised- its aways tryproductname.com or buyproductname.com or productnametv.com in the commercial, we use different domains for tracking. But nevertheless, about 60% of the people who visit the website always land on productname.com even if we never advertised it. If we didn't make it a point to always own it, all of that traffic would be going to someone else even with a national TV campaign behind it.

Thanks people.

This sucks. The owner of the .com domain isn't even using it. It's just a blank page.

I'll try once more to reach out to the owner...if it ain't successful, well then I guess I have to re-name my product.

.com's are always the best choice for BRAND names, and no hypens or any silly things like that. If you can't find a decent .com, keep searching...

.net's or org's are also good, but for "regular" websites, not a product/ebook selling site.

My opinion is the first one. Not really a fan of hyphenated names. When you're on camera do you want to say "Go to multiple dash income dash streams dot com" or do you want to say go to "multiple income streams dot net" now.... which one are peeople more likely to take action on?

I just managed to get a hold of the owner of the domain. It is not exactly the domain that I wanted first, but it's a pretty good .com one with my product name.

More bad news however: I was going to transfer this domain to my other host (this guy was a member of godaddy, so he just transferred it straight to my godaddy account).
Apparently the domain is now LOCKED for 2 months in my godaddy account and I'm not allowed to move it to my other host.

This is unacceptable and somebody at GoDaddy is going to pay for this.

I would try for another domain with a .com like other people have said, there is little point in owning a .net when someone else has the same .com unless you are hot on SEO which I another reason I wouldn't use hyphens in the domain as it can hurt your SEO.

.com is probably the best way to go. For some reason this gets more traffic than a .net or any of the other extensions.

.com what you need if you want to SEO. Use some keyword rich domain finder tools. .net no way. -somedomain-somedomain.com no way.

I like multiple-income-streams.com better. Which one do you think is easier to read? Which one do you think will get more clickthroughs when you promote your links in your email newsletter?

That's a tough one. I really don't like either.

For me I always try to get a .com and a hyphen and rather than sacrificing either I would just search for a different domain name altogether.

But if I had to choose I'd probably go the .net. Hyphens just look unprofessional to me.

Hi,
Don't use hyphens in your domain name or numbers or any weird spelling of words. Dot com is of course the most sought after. You want to make your domain name as easy as possible to find.

Is there any possibility of changing the name of the book? If I were you, I'd start with a new name. Go find you domain name first, then you can name the book the same thing.
Good luck with your endeavor!
Geri Richmond

I would find a new name something more original because whoever owns multipleincomestreams.com could sue you