.com vs .ca
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ipodtouchhackerisher
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- May 6, 2009
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Always use .com if possible!
1) Many web users, especially those who engage frequently in e-commerce, think everything on the web ends in ".com" and would more likely type "redcross.com" into their browser than "redcross.org" for example. You'd certainly want them to find you either way.
2) You don't want someone else to register the ".com" domain and either use it for other purposes, or try to extort thousands of dollars from you to get it back. Imagine how embarrassed you'd be if your ".com" turned out like www.whitehouse.com (try it if you don't blush easily). As this use to be a porn domain name and people thought they were finding out about the white house but no they were finding out about porn lol
3) It's a great opportunity to measure your offline advertising effectiveness. If you normally use the .org domain, and you want to measure the web traffic you can generate from featuring your site on a brochure, then you can print the ".com" address on the brochure. That's much easier than printing your ".org" address with a unique link like "/code1" after it. Visitors can be counted as they get to the ".com" address, then redirected to the ".org" to see your site.
1) Many web users, especially those who engage frequently in e-commerce, think everything on the web ends in ".com" and would more likely type "redcross.com" into their browser than "redcross.org" for example. You'd certainly want them to find you either way.
2) You don't want someone else to register the ".com" domain and either use it for other purposes, or try to extort thousands of dollars from you to get it back. Imagine how embarrassed you'd be if your ".com" turned out like www.whitehouse.com (try it if you don't blush easily). As this use to be a porn domain name and people thought they were finding out about the white house but no they were finding out about porn lol
3) It's a great opportunity to measure your offline advertising effectiveness. If you normally use the .org domain, and you want to measure the web traffic you can generate from featuring your site on a brochure, then you can print the ".com" address on the brochure. That's much easier than printing your ".org" address with a unique link like "/code1" after it. Visitors can be counted as they get to the ".com" address, then redirected to the ".org" to see your site.
Thanks for the input ipodtouchhackerisher. Pretty much the way I was looking at it already. I'm more or less thinking, there was already the dot com boom how ever many years ago, I was wondering if anyone thought there may be a similar occurance taking place with the dot ca's.
RuleTheWorld
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- Jul 7, 2009
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.com because it's a more widely known domain name. Newer internet users tend to look at unusual extensions like .ca, .ch etc and think they're viruses. I know it's stupid, it took some explaining to my parents.
mapleleafz
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- Jul 8, 2010
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Depends, I like to use .ca if I'm focusing on a local niche (canadian, eh).