How important is it to get the.net and .org with the .com for a product site?

by NateJasper

Posted: 10 years ago 8 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Say you are going to develop an info product and there is a hooky domain available (a domain with a strong sales hook), how important is it to get the .net and .org also?

Also, if a .com is taken and a .net is available, is it a good idea to take it if the domain name is strong?

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seoster 10 years ago

Not really INHO. Better /easier work on one site & throw targeted traffic at it en masse. Nothing much else matters you will find.
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- NateJasper 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by seoster
  
  Not really INHO. Better /easier work on one site & throw targeted traffic at it en masse. Nothing much else matters you will find.
  
  The reason to do it isn't to make other sites but to block competition from using those domains.
  
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Alexa Smith Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by NateJasper

Also, if a .com is taken and a .net is available, is it a good idea to take it if the domain name is strong?

I wouldn't.

I wouldn't want to build a business on a domain-name of which the .com version already belongs to someone else. That's all potential downside and no benefit at all.

Regarding your first question, I don't think it matters all that much, unless you think you're going to need them for some reason. Personally, for reasons of my own, I register the .com and the .info and leave the others, but few people here are going to agree with that, given the extraordinary prejudices that marketers sometimes have against .info domains (customers don't, though!)
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internetmarketer1 10 years ago

I would recommend .com, but in reality, it doesn't make much of a difference when it comes down to selling something.
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Anne Laidlaw 10 years ago

If I can't get the .com I don't buy the domain. But If I can get the .com I don't care if the others are available.
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affilorama-portal 10 years ago

For me it is always better to get the .com for my site but if this is not available, I would

*jumble/re-arrange my domain name, perhaps get new set of keyword phrases until I can get a .com domain available
*or just get the .info or net, whichever is available

For your second concern, I would not worry much about my competition. It will all depend on how you convert traffic to sales anyway
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markgaperl 10 years ago

Seriously if .com is not available, then you should reconsider the name. The other domains are a plus but not necessary. But .com is a must.

If you are really sitting on a goldmine, then I would go ahead and grab all the domoains to avoid any complications in future.
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- The Marketing Mom 10 years ago
  
  The reason you want the .com is because it is because people automatically use that when typing site urls from memory.
  
  How many times have you gone to brand.com instead of brand.net or brand.org only to find out it was the wrong site? It has happened to me many times.
  
  That's in addition to any SEO considerations...
  
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