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Domain Name Extensions – Which Is Best?
Domain Name Extensions – Which Is Best?
There are many domain name extension, some are ‘primary domain extensions’ some are ‘secondary or country extensions’. Which is best? That depends upon your point of view, but there are some simple guidelines to follow.
As I said, which of the myriad of domain name extensions is best depends largely upon your point of view, but in general, the .com extension should be your first acquisition followed by .net, .biz and your country of origin extension.
Why buy multiple extensions?
Well, when you start making gazillions of dollars your competitors can quite easily buy your domain with all those alternate extensions!
For example, let say you buy the domain name, fantastic-site.com, your competitors can buy the domains, fantastic-site.org, fantastic-site.biz, fantastic-site.net, etc.
Why would they do that?
Won’t they confuse their customers?
They won’t be confusing their customers because they will have a totally different primary domain for their website, this is a domain name trick. A trick designed to steal your customers by automatically redirecting any customer who enters the alternate domain names to their primary domain.
Avoid this common mistake and buy all the necessary domain names to protect your interests then redirect these domain to your primary domain site.
You can research your domain name choices at any of the registrars listed in my article, ‘Where to Register Domain Names". Most of these registrars provide domain name registration, domain name hosting, free domain name search facilities and some even give you a FREE domain name if you accept their domain name hosting package.
You may also be interested in the following articles in this series:
- 20 Tips on Creating Your Domain Name
- Add on Domains – What Are Add on Domains?
- DNS Servers – What Are DNS Servers
- Does a Good Domain Name Improve Search Engine Ranking?
- Domain Name Extensions – Which Is Best?
- Domain Name Registrars – Who Are They?
- Domain Name Registration – Where And How To Register
- Domain Names – How Do They Work?
- Domain Names – What Are They?
- IP Address – How to Find an IP Address for Any Url
- IP Address – What is an IP Address?
- Older Domain Names – Do They Rank Higher?
- Sub-Domains – What are Sub-Domains?
- The Right Domain Name – How to Find Choose Good Domain Names
- Top Level Domain (TLD) – What is a Top Level Domain?
- Where to Register Domain Names
- Your Own a Domain Name – Why You Should Buy One One
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