Confused with domain name

Hey guys, what's up.

So, I wanna buy a .com but I'm facing the usual issue, availability. I wanna buy a domain, let's say it's "science.com" and it's obviously taken, but, the spanish version is available, "ciencia.com". My issue is that I'm not targeting specifically the spanish speaking market, so I'm confused if it could create confusion regards pronunciation, for example. If I buy the spanish domain name, should I pronounce it in spanish, or how an english speaker would say it? The positive of this alternative, is how short "ciencia.com" is. Obviously it's not that, as I wouldn't say the real name, but you get the idea.

On the other hand, my other choice is modifying the english name to, let's say "sciencedaily.com" or something like that.

Well, this domain name has been giving me headaches so I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks.

ciencia is not bad, also shorter than sciencedaily
you can choose any name without hyphens & numbers
domain names does not matter on ranking

Biycchu said:

ciencia is not bad, also shorter than sciencedaily
you can choose any name without hyphens & numbers
domain names does not matter on ranking

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That's true, but I was thinking maybe in terms of brand recognition and being easy to pronounce. Thanks

.Com for sure, the default with vast majority of searchers. Try to find something that is short, perhaps was never used and deleted or pending delete, 2 english words and isn't a fresh registration and has some history for a number of years, it may help in ranking sooner. Backlinks better if any exist.

Ciencia?, ask yourself does that pass the radio test? How many ways can it be spelled incorrectly and if needed to be explained?

Regarding another language- as long as it can be pronounced and spelled easily, and meets the radio test. Often Spanish/English close cognates like "Accidente" or "Presidente" with the final "e" as the only difference would be first thing I looked at if I were deciding using your criteria.

Enserio said:

.Com for sure, the default with vast majority of searchers. Try to find something that is short, perhaps was never used and deleted or pending delete, 2 english words and isn't a fresh registration and has some history for a number of years, it may help in ranking sooner. Backlinks better if any exist.

Ciencia?, ask yourself does that pass the radio test? How many ways can it be spelled incorrectly and if needed to be explained?

Regarding another language- as long as it can be pronounced and spelled easily, and meets the radio test. Often Spanish/English close cognates like "Accidente" or "Presidente" with the final "e" as the only difference would be first thing I looked at if I were deciding using your criteria.

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Yeah I'm definitely going for a .com and ideally short, but you can't imagine how many hours I've spent on the name of this project. I wouldn't do it myself but now I understand why some people buy .io or similar.

Maybe I'm obsessing over it, but let's say I pick, using your example "presidente.com". How would it be pronounced? spanish accentuation like "pre-si-DEN-te.com" or english one, "PRE-si-dent(e).com"?

Orozuz said:

Yeah I'm definitely going for a .com and ideally short, but you can't imagine how many hours I've spent on the name of this project. I wouldn't do it myself but now I understand why some people buy .io or similar.

Maybe I'm obsessing over it, but let's say I pick, using your example "presidente.com". How would it be pronounced? spanish accentuation like "pre-si-DEN-te.com" or english one, "PRE-si-dent(e).com"?

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Hey, don't worry about being obsessed- get it right. English speakers likely would ignore the "E", right? The point in using a cognate- it's so easy and similar to English- or also you might look over at one of the brandable market places for ideas of made up words. But you won't find any 4 letter ones cheap. Even 5 letters have been going for a lot lately- many domainers are speculative buyers, and people with vast portfolios have to sell a couple to pay off all their hundreds or thousands of yearly registrations.

If you look at the deleted domains- and use the consonants and vowels example IE: CVCVV etc to search tool in expired domains if you want a brandable made up word. Personally I wouldn't go with AI or IO, but that's my opinion. I have a huge database of my own I use to find (2) word .com's.

There are advertisers and sellers here that have domains with history and backlinks for sale too.

Enserio said:

Hey, don't worry about being obsessed- get it right. English speakers likely would ignore the "E", right? The point in using a cognate- it's so easy and similar to English- or also you might look over at one of the brandable market places for ideas of made up words. But you won't find any 4 letter ones cheap. Even 5 letters have been going for a lot lately- many domainers are speculative buyers, and people with vast portfolios have to sell a couple to pay off all their hundreds or thousands of yearly registrations.

If you look at the deleted domains- and use the consonants and vowels example IE: CVCVV etc to search tool in expired domains if you want a brandable made up word. Personally I wouldn't go with AI or IO, but that's my opinion. I have a huge database of my own I use to find (2) word .com's.

There are advertisers and sellers here that have domains with history and backlinks for sale too.

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I've found some 5 letters domains but they literally mean nothing. I guess they could be brandable but I was trying to find something maybe a little longer but that could be somewhat descriptive of the business. Do you suggest going for a shorter one even if it doesn't mean anything in particular?

I'm going to try to find some deleted domains that way, with consonants and vowels. Thanks mate, I appreciate the advices.

the domain with the daily sounds better

Orozuz said:

Do you suggest going for a shorter one even if it doesn't mean anything in particular?

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Not sure of your business plan, so can't answer exactly. If you want to develop the brand name and stick with it- certainly and for $10 registration fee. Brandables 5+ years ago were made up words like Fiverr using extra consonant or vowels, then the trend I saw switch to 2 short words. Recently I saw both still listed, but exorbitant high prices- careful with auctions, some are shady and expired registrant is given grace period and will re-register if bids made.

I would choose another domain name

Stick with English and choose another domain name. As a non-Spanish speaker, it's a thousand times easier to remember "ScienceDaily" than "Ciencia."

nostalgiaa said:

As a non-Spanish speaker, it's a thousand times easier to remember "ScienceDaily" than "Ciencia."

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Agreed. More importantly there are more English speakers in the world than Spanish so consider that too.

BTW why don't you think a bit differently and go for any other tld other than a .com? There are many variations available and you can make a brandable name out of it too.

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Not sure of your business plan, so can't answer exactly. If you want to develop the brand name and stick with it- certainly and for $10 registration fee. Brandables 5+ years ago were made up words like Fiverr using extra consonant or vowels, then the trend I saw switch to 2 short words. Recently I saw both still listed, but exorbitant high prices- careful with auctions, some are shady and expired registrant is given grace period and will re-register if bids made.

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Yeah, that's true about the trends, there's another one that's like, removing a letter: "domainr.com" for example. My issue with extra consonants or removing vocals, is that unless you spend a lot on advertising and get a lot of brand recognition, you have to explain every time "it's domainr, like domainer without the e". Same with adding consonants like with "fiverr" but that one is so recognisable that clarifications aren't needed anymore. 2 words is a good option as well, gonna look for names like that.

nostalgiaa said:

Stick with English and choose another domain name. As a non-Spanish speaker, it's a thousand times easier to remember "ScienceDaily" than "Ciencia."

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I think I'll do this and stick to an english name. 1 word was my priority but I guess I'll have to consider 2 as well.

sageshark said:

Agreed. More importantly there are more English speakers in the world than Spanish so consider that too.

BTW why don't you think a bit differently and go for any other tld other than a .com? There are many variations available and you can make a brandable name out of it too.

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It's more than just thinking differently mate. I understand that tons of very successful and recognisable business domains are .io or .net, it's just that the .com is more recognisable and carries more "value". Also, I don't wanna throw shade to any other domain extension, but at least for me, whenever I see a .io, .net. org, .site, etc., I tend to think "hmm probably the .com was taken", I tend to think that it wasn't their first option being xxx.io but the .com was taken or it was too expensive. Regards the english domain, yeah that's true, I guess I'll stick to an english name

Orozuz said:

I tend to think "hmm probably the .com was taken

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So do most people everywhere in search, it's the default and unless regional only business. Choosing .io or .ai requires you always remind people that is the extension.

Orozuz said:

it's just that the .com is more recognisable and carries more "value". Also, I don't wanna throw shade to any other domain extension, but at least for me, whenever I see a .io, .net. org, .site, etc., I tend to think "hmm probably the .com was taken", I tend to think that it wasn't their first option being xxx.io but the .com was taken or it was too expensive.

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Totally agree with your assessment. I wouldn’t touch anything but .com or .ai (for an ai-related site). And even if I had an AI site, I’d prefer exampleAI.com

Orozuz said:

Maybe I'm obsessing over it, but let's say I pick, using your example "presidente.com". How would it be pronounced? spanish accentuation like "pre-si-DEN-te.com" or english one, "PRE-si-dent(e).com"?

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Regarding how it will be pronounce it will be mispronounced no matter how you choose. Look at the car Porsche and how often it is mispronounced.

What about 5cience.tech? soon other TLDs will be famous too as people are running out of short .com domain names.