.com .net .org - All Three?

by Trin
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I have stumbled upon a domain name which has a fair potential, extremely minimal competition, fair number of searches, decent adsense potenial. (clicks in the $2 range and 12 advertisers)

My question is.... Since it makes sense to tie it up and purchase all three extensions, (com, net, org) would you simply redirect the .net and .org to the .com, or would you build out all three into different sites?

If I were to build out three sites, are there any precautions I should take? I do private registration, but should I be hosting the sites on different IP's, different hosts? Anything?

I am going to be using my own take on the clickbump/xfactor methods on these sites.

Thanks for any advice you care to share.
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  • Profile picture of the author olamilekan2
    I suggest you just pick the .com and spend the remaining funds on other niches, this way you are diversifying your portfolio of adsense niche sites. I am sure you can uncover more micro-niches as the one you just uncover. i beleive you dont plan to be in this niche alone in your adsense career.

    Good Luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jordan Kovats
    Or if you are building a company, take all 3 to protect the company name, and have the other 2 forward to .com
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  • Profile picture of the author 3rok3n
    yeah like someone said if you are running a company than grab em all or even more. but personally .com and .org are better.
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  • Profile picture of the author Darren Hodgson
    you can only rank number 1 (which is where most of the traffic is) for one of the domains. Do you really want to waste alot of time and energy getting to spots 2 and 3 when you could be in another niche getting to number 1.

    I'd only buy all three if I wanted to protect a company name and I'd park the .org and .net
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  • Profile picture of the author D Baker
    Don't see a reason to buy all 3... In any case, even if you do decide to get them all so no one will join the competition, than you should direct 2 of them. No reason for you to waste time on building 3 different sites for the same keyword phrase.
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  • Profile picture of the author kposs
    For businesses that I'm branding, I buy all 3 just to make sure the competition can't use them. If I'm just buying an exact match domain, for example, I'll look for the .com first and .org second. I don't think you need all 3 for the purposes you've described. It'd just be overkill.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trin
    Thanks for the advice. I've decided to buy the .com and let the other two go and pursue other niches.
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    My common sense is tingling

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  • Profile picture of the author DianeBrandt
    I would make the website for .com and then redirect the .org and .net to the .com.
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  • I own all three... and you can rank them all if you choose.

    But for now I would do this:

    Take the .com and see what you can do.

    If it makes money then build out the 2nd site. Use Proxy registration and a different host. Do not use any of the same content - even spun on the 2nd site.

    If that works then build out site 3.

    If .com is only moderately successful then just sit on the domains and do NOTHING with them. Yes NOTHING. What's the point in redirecting if they are not type in Domains?

    By NOT redirecting should the .com take off you have not let Google know about the other domains.

    Google figures things out very quickly.

    Proxy Registration will prevent this from occurring. I know this because a Google Rep actually wrote me a couple of years back wanting to know about one of my sites and how it related to another. I wasn't doing anything "wrong"... so I just ignored them.
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  • Profile picture of the author nouseforaname
    If I were you, I will try to get all those available (.com/.net/.org) if the niche are quite good, high traffic keywords or it is an EMD. Then build a site on .com, redirect the .net/.org to .com (Get coupons/promo code to buy them all).
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