Comments on: Blogging Tip: Dot Com or Bust

By: firefox indir

firefox indir — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:37:05 +0000

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By: Easily Find Good Domain Names with PC Names

Easily Find Good Domain Names with PC Names — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:01:15 +0000

[...] but none were dot com domains. As I’ve stated before, I won’t purchase a domain name unless it is a dot com name. Luckily, before leaving the site disappointed, I noticed an Advanced search option next to the [...]

By: Hair Removal

Hair Removal — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:56:25 +0000

I agree that dot com are more frequently searched and even search engines give more value to a dot com rather than a dot org or others. But dot com domains are more expensive then the others.
What are your views over a dot info, Kyle?

By: Techlicious.tv

Techlicious.tv — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:55:52 +0000

Not agreed… dot com or bust is passe… You should only worry if you have a .net or .org type of uncool domain names. The new TLDs are pretty hot and help in contributing towards the uniqueness of the blog. Take for example .fm & .tv domains. The only thing is that one should promote the TLD.. take for example last.fm! Take a look at http://www.techlicious.tv – The overall appearance and banner of the site makes it look memorable, which, i think, wud not look that cool with a dot com tld.

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:48:47 +0000

Ryan – Yeah, I couldn’t agree more. I personally won’t buy any domain’s that are not dot com, but if I did, I would use a banner with the full name.

Michael – If it is available, I would snatch it up, then just redirect it to your .org address. I think that is the best solution for people that have built up a domain name and don’t want to lose all that search engine juice. Domain’s at GoDaddy are $8.00 with the coupon code BLAUGH, so is it worth $8.00 for the rights to the dot com version of your blog name? It was worth more than $5,000 to Darren Rowse

Shij – When you say trouble getting traffic, that could be a variety of things. Is your site optimized for search engine traffic? How established is your domain? Are the search engines indexing it? Those are the first questions that jump out at me. Also, your domain includes a hyphen and a subdomain, which is fine, but might be hard for people to remember. In that case, you probably don’t have a lot of visitors from typing the URL directly into the web browser.

By: Kyle Eslick

Kyle Eslick — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:41:58 +0000

Rhys – I don’t know much about .co.uk’s. No domain is technically better than another domain. The problem is that most people’s instinct is to use dot com if they are manually typing the URL into the web browser. If you don’t have a dot com name, you could be missing out on some traffic or causing frustration for your readers who have to Google your site, etc, because they use dot com when trying to access your website. Do most people in your area have a .co.uk address?

In the link I did above, they talk about adding the full domain to your blog’s banner to help remind readers of your correct domain name. So, instead of your banner showing Rhys, it should show Rhys.co.uk (for example).

I look forward to reading your post about it!

By: shijirou

shijirou — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:35:32 +0000

So its better to get a dot com domain? I’m on a dot net domain and its been hard to get traffic into my blog (and the whole site as well). Could it be because of the dot net thing?

And also I love that sort of captcha thing you got on the comments asking me the sum of two numbers. Is this a plugin?

Thanks!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:09:12 +0000

I have always wondered whether it was a mistake for getting the .org domain but I’ve also thought about buying the .com domain. CyberSurge.com doesn’t seem to be in use at all, it is just a blog that was never updated. I think I may find out who owns it and offer to buy it.

By: Ryan Wagner

Ryan Wagner — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:22:37 +0000

That “banner” idea is a great example of what you have to do. Just look at the OpenOffice program. Technically their name is OpenOffice.org which makes it easy for people to remember what the website address is since the openoffice.com is a domain squatter.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:44:02 +0000

What’s your opinion of .co.uk’s? I always buy them, partly because they are a lot cheaper than .com in the UK. A number of top websites (i.e. bbc) are .co.uk’s, especially UK websites.

I feel I’m going to do a blog post on this