.org vs .com

11 years ago

Everyone trusts .com. Most people trust .org. It's not really an issue of trust, but an issue of branding. Do you think you can get as many people to your site from offline marketing if your address is mysite.org or do you think you'll get more if it's mysite.com?

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zspuckl 11 years ago

Well, I don't think I will do much offline marketing since it is an amazon site, I do plan to potentially build it up to the point I can sell it...
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venkateshk

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Confined To Life

Everyone trusts .com. Most people trust .org. It's not really an issue of trust, but an issue of branding. Do you think you can get as many people to your site from offline marketing if your address is mysite.org or do you think you'll get more if it's mysite.com?

True, its more about the branding than trust. When you do a google search, invariably our eyes get attached to a .com site than a .org site.

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Miguelito203

11 years ago

Originally Posted by zspuckl

Okay, so I am doing an amazon site, so the main keyword almost never leads to searches/product discovery, usually its product keywrods...but still do you trust a .com over a .org as a buyer?

As a marketer and pretty frequent Amazon buyer, I would say go with .com.

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Auctiondebteliminator

11 years ago

For me it's what I habitually type in from muscle memory.

And especially for branding purposes, if I remember the domain, I'm always going to be typing in .com and never .org.

So even if it's for the 'direct traffic' crowd.

I just don't type in .org.

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regervin

11 years ago

I always go with .com if it's available because it is the TLD that pretty much automatically comes to peoples minds. When have you ever that about looking something and what pops into is, 'oh let me see if this gizmo is at gizmo.org'?

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mrelk159

11 years ago

Honesty I don't think there is any difference between .com and .org, as long as you know how to rank your website and drive traffic than it makes no difference.

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fnoperi1

11 years ago

I would prefer .com or .net, but .org I dunno.

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evilbunnies

11 years ago

Always go with the .com if you can, but there really isn't to much that will hurt you if you go with a .org

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stevenburn 11 years ago

.com is by far the most widely known, most used and most valuable TLD.

.org might be useful just to help instill the fact that the project is open source.
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wackiin

11 years ago

I always take the .com if avab but if only .net and .org are open ill take the .org i just dont like the .net has nothing to do with rankings they will all rank the same

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Ali Thunder

11 years ago

go for .com if its available or you can choose .net if its available

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Arunabh Singh

11 years ago

I have to agree with everyone else on this thread. I'd always go with a dot com domain when I am intending to sell anything to my visitors.

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Chirdpong

11 years ago

I didn't see any difference between .com and .org. My .org site can rank #1 with out any problem.

For no reason at all, I personally like .org rather than .com. So, many times I choose to register .org domain even if .com still avaliable. It is up to the sound and feeling when I pronouce my site name. Anyway, I don't like .net and others.

PS: wordpress.org look more professional than wordpress.com in my feeling.

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Arunabh Singh

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Chirdpong

I didn't see any difference between .com and .org. My .org site can rank #1 with out any problem.

For no reason at all, I personally like .org rather than .com. So, many times I choose to register .org domain even if .com still avaliable. It is up to the sound and feeling when I pronouce my site name. Anyway, I don't like .net and others.

PS: wordpress.org look more professional than wordpress.com in my feeling.

No one said that you can't rank an org domain or a com domain is superior for seo purposes.

I prefer dot com purely for branding reasons. And when I sell a profitable site most of the time dot com sells for more than a dot org domain. I also take in the factor that many people don't remember the domain extension, so I can't afford to lose visitors to the dot com version of the domain.