[BenPaintinTooLong]

Do any of you think it matters alot which of these you may use on your "co name ."what ever? on a web site

BPTL

 

[timhag]

For a company name or website?

 

[BenPaintinTooLong]

For a company name or website?

Web site..........

 

[timhag]

I don't think it matters what you use. I know .org = organization and .edu = education, may not want to use these. I'm sure there are other .'s out there that I'm not familiar with that have a certain meaning.

 

[timhag]

Try this http://www.whois.net/

 

[JNLP]

I would use a .com being it's the most popular.


.biz is used by small businesses for web sites.
.com is for businesses, commercial enterprises, or online services.
.edu is for schools and other educational websites.
.info is meant to denote credible information bearing websites.
.name is specifically designed exclusively for personal use.
.net is for networks; usually reserved for organizations such as Internet service providers.
.org classifies sites belonging to an organization.
.pro is for use by professionals, such as attorneys and physicians.
.travel classifies travel related organizations.
.tv is for entertainment entities.
.us classifies the country (in this case the United States) that relates to the particular site.
*All the other extensions out there are pretty much self explanatory.

Never hurts to also purchase a couple others (.net, .biz) to save you from somebody else using your name at that extension & confusing people that are looking for YOU. Also if your name is two-part, it's better to have the website your-name.com & also have yourname.com but forwarding to the one with the "-". That's for search engine uses only though.

 

[Kelly Painting]

I can't get kellstar.com

i own kellstarpainting.com and .net .....soon I will have the cell phone one also. I have a unique name and no one seams to want it.

 

[PressurePros]

dot com is still given the highest juice in Google rankings followed by .net and .org I believe. The strongest links you can get into your site come from .gov and .edu as these cannot be bought by citizens.

 

[BenPaintinTooLong]

I would use a .com being it's the most popular.


.biz

I can't get .com so the .biz will do, it is for a buisness.
Thanks all
BPTL

 

[PressurePros]

BPTL,

you don't neccessarily need to have your business name as the URL. In fact I find generic URL's easier to remember.

For instance, I live in Delaware County PA which is often abbreviated to "Delco". If I saw a truck or saw a newspaper ad that said "DelcoPainting.com" or "PApainters.com" that would stick in my head.

 

[Nathan]

I HIGHLY suggest getting a .com name if at all possible. It doesn't matter what you do people will almost always end up typing in the .com address when trying to remember it.

 

[Brian]

you don't neccessarily need to have your business name as the URL. In fact I find generic URL's easier to remember.

This is a very good point. Making your URL easy to remember has more value than it being your name. Think of someone driving down the street and they see your sign. If the URL is easy to remember you've got a chance.

I also agree with the dot com comments. I just assume a web site is dot com, and I suspect most people do as well. So if I'm driving down the street and see benpaintintoolong.biz, I'm probably not going to get to your site.

As an example, I have a company that does maintenance painting for multi-family, commercial, and institutional properties. Our web site is www.MaintainYourPaint.com Perhaps not the most memorable, but better than the company name (RockWoods Phillips).

Brian Phillips

 

[Tonyg]

Getting my site taken care of now. I came up with 10 names and 8 out of 10 were .NET or .BIZ

My web guy shot down all of them for a .COM that was more generic (geographical) Its all about the search and he was pretty adamant that I shouldn't use the alternatives if I had a choice.

 

[George Z]

.ca for the Canadian readers here.
In Google.ca (more popular in Canada)
a.ca domain is preferred by Google search.
Also more Canadians trust and look for a .ca url than a .com

Unless of course you are interested in the value of the domain itself
or thinking of expansion. In this case .com is best.

 

[Nathan]

A great tool to use when looking for domains is http://instantdomainsearch.com. You can see if it's open or not as you type instead of having to search every time.

 

[BenPaintinTooLong]

I too think .com is the best to have, I will try for a abriviated url that will work with my co. name.
Thanks all, BPTL:thumbup: