Should I buy the .com, .org, and.net of the brand I plan to build?

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I am planning to build a brand in the spirituality niche, in a sub niche with very low search competition and high volume. I have a lot of products that will be cheap to produce that are similar to the couple of competitors in the niche.

I wanted to know if it would be a good idea to buy all three of .com, .org, and .net so make sure I get the name and just redirect them to the .com.

Should I bother or is it not really worth it?
 
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Unless you have a lot of non planned budget to spend I do not recommend doing that.
There's really no point at all on doing it unless you're making a whole lot of money and you're afraid of copycats or scammers. That's just my opinion though
 
To protect your brand, yes, absolutely, buy the .net and the .org but stop there. Those are the big three. No tangible reason to seek the other 3 million extensions.
 
I would just buy the main TLD and bother to get the others after I see some success.

It's a good strategy to buy them all in order to protect your brand, but focus on creating the brand first ;)
 
No reason to buy .org and redirect to .com. I believe it's a wrong action. These additionals TLDs have not weight. .com TLDs are best for optimizing and appear very well on search results.
 
crazymonster said:
No reason to buy .org and redirect to .com. I believe it's a wrong action. These additionals TLDs have not weight. .com TLDs are best for optimizing and appear very well on search results.
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I decided to start off with the .com, then if I get to 25UV a month, I will monetize with mediavine, buy the other TLDs to redirect. At that point I should want enough that it's worth having the others.

I have another question though.
My sub niche gets about 1m searches a month across all keywords. The most common searcher is females 30-50. And there is no Forum that targets this sub-niche. Should I have the forum be a separate website or should it be on the same website, or even Forum.website.com
 
MisterF said:
Buy all 3, it’s going to cost you an extra $20. If you think you future brand might get hijacked then spend now, IMO.
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I wrote down now, but I think I will start with the .com and then buy the others once I am getting good traffic.
 
Jokull said:
I decided to start off with the .com, then if I get to 25UV a month, I will monetize with mediavine, buy the other TLDs to redirect. At that point I should want enough that it's worth having the others.

I have another question though.
My sub niche gets about 1m searches a month across all keywords. The most common searcher is females 30-50. And there is no Forum that targets this sub-niche. Should I have the forum be a separate website or should it be on the same website, or even Forum.website.com
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(1) higher search volume = higher competition => hard working to get ranked. In my opinion: look at for low search volume keywords/terms. Believe me, it's not easy to get 1% of those 1 million.
(2) If you create a subdomain or another domain for that forum, that will be considered as a new website by Google. If you do subfolder instead, it will point weight for the root whole domain.
domain.com/forum will give you rank weight
forum.domain.com will be considered as another website. So you need to build trust for the subdomain and for the domain separately.
 
I always do it! I found out the hard way back in 2005 when my main site got big and all of a sudden there were a ton of sites just like mine and the .org and .net used to duplicate it. I learned my lesson the hard way.
 
No. You will have to buy .io, .cc, .us, .eu and so on and so on. I doubt you need that.
If your business becomes huge and grows into a trademark, you will be able to get the domains through court later on.
 
Are you building a brand? Will you get trademark for it? If yes - so you don't need to buy all of them. Once you own the trademark and register it, you can ask any hosting to take any site that violates your trademark.
 
crazymonster said:
(1) higher search volume = higher competition => hard working to get ranked. In my opinion: look at for low search volume keywords/terms. Believe me, it's not easy to get 1% of those 1 million.
(2) If you create a subdomain or another domain for that forum, that will be considered as a new website by Google. If you do subfolder instead, it will point weight for the root whole domain.
domain.com/forum will give you rank weight
forum.domain.com will be considered as another website. So you need to build trust for the subdomain and for the domain separately.
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It isn't one keyword with 1m searches.

It is around 1m searches a month across all the main search terms I will Target combined. There are only about 6 websites targeting these terms and only 3 are any good. The others are low quality and very slow websites. Some of the terms have forum posts or posts that don't answer the query. Most of the search terms I will initially target have 500-3000 searches a month and little competition. Some of the bigger ones are about 50k searches with only a few competing posts. A couple sites are 2-5 DR and ranking 1/2 on searches within a couple months of site creation.
Google trends shows this sub-niche as growing exponentially over the last year

There is a lot of demand for products in this niche that people are searching for , but they don't exist. I want to be the authority site in this sub niche while it is still early. I will start a journey thread once I set up hosting.
 
MandyLee said:
I always do it! I found out the hard way back in 2005 when my main site got big and all of a sudden there were a ton of sites just like mine and the .org and .net used to duplicate it. I learned my lesson the hard way.
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Maybe I will just spring for them since it will be a bit before I trademark. That way I won't have to fight for them.
 
grammakov said:
No. You will have to buy .io, .cc, .us, .eu and so on and so on. I doubt you need that.
If your business becomes huge and grows into a trademark, you will be able to get the domains through court later on.
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Jokull said:
It isn't one keyword with 1m searches.

It is around 1m searches a month across all the main search terms I will Target combined. There are only about 6 websites targeting these terms and only 3 are any good. The others are low quality and very slow websites. Some of the terms have forum posts or posts that don't answer the query. Most of the search terms I will initially target have 500-3000 searches a month and little competition. Some of the bigger ones are about 50k searches with only a few competing posts. A couple sites are 2-5 DR and ranking 1/2 on searches within a couple months of site creation.
Google trends shows this sub-niche as growing exponentially over the last year

There is a lot of demand for products in this niche that people are searching for , but they don't exist. I want to be the authority site in this sub niche while it is still early. I will start a journey thread once I set up hosting.
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I see. Don't think Google will give you everything fastly. Sometimes low quality and not-responsive websites ranked better. I could say ... it is a tough fight to get you ranked in the top 10.
 
crazymonster said:
Yes. That


I see. Don't think Google will give you everything fastly. Sometimes low quality and not-responsive websites ranked better. I could say ... it is a tough fight to get you ranked in the top 10.
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We will see. I think I will start by answering the questions people have that do not have an answer when searched. Build my credibility and then move to slightly larger terms over time. There is one guy who is clearly good at SEO who has ranked #1 for hundreds of terms in just 4 months since his site creation. His traffic is pretty high. Only has a DR of 2. The other site are blogs by clearly inexperienced website owners.
 
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