URL Extensions... Yes or No
#1
URL Extensions... Yes or No
What do you guys think of URL extensions, do you think they will be the hot choice for new startups? Do you think already established and successful websites will convert over to a URL extension to shorten their websites .com URL? Instagr.am is the first one that really caught my attention and I was just wondering what you guys thought about them.
#2
One of our concepts uses them as part of the name. The fm stuff is getting popular too. What you have to remember is that search engines still like .com the best and everyone wants to put ".com" after your web address by default (this is the bigger issue in my opinion). You will wind up having to explain to people that your website is NOT a .com... this gets especially confusing if you have a .co extension. Even with .am, .fm, .me and so on you still wind up explaining it to people, "no no, it's not teamspeedme.com, it's teamspeed DOT me".
#3
One of our concepts uses them as part of the name. The fm stuff is getting popular too. What you have to remember is that search engines still like .com the best and everyone wants to put ".com" after your web address by default (this is the bigger issue in my opinion). You will wind up having to explain to people that your website is NOT a .com... this gets especially confusing if you have a .co extension. Even with .am, .fm, .me and so on you still wind up explaining it to people, "no no, it's not teamspeedme.com, it's teamspeed DOT me".
#5
Definitely consider if being found is your goal, because search engines do still prefer .com. However if you redirect traffic from a pre-existing .com which gets lots of visits and is aged, it's not going to matter and I imagine it'd pull the new domain up in the rankings.
However, if your business involves advertising the site, that's very important. You can still get ranked, it just takes longer. I believe they view .com as more "valid" or something? It's not quite clear to me, someone more involved in the industry can explain it better than I can.
#8
I have a .co and people think it's a mistake when I tell them or give them a card, I think by far that is the extension most often confused with .com
#9
Maybe it's a Canadian thing. I'm use to to typing .ca for so many Canadian sites. DJ when you own more then one domain suffix wouldn't you just redirect traffic to the main site?
Last edited by gmaccormack; 03-31-2012 at 09:15 PM.
#10
Like slord pointed out, even instagram has the .com which he types, so you while you can promote with a different extension, you almost NEED the .com.
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