Domain .com or it??

I have to select a new domain for internet start-up. I am in doubt.
I have a 6 letter domain pronounceable, but does not say anything in English (that is the main market US) or cool .it domain.

The .it domain I have is a super cool 5 letter word that works with the English word 'it' for example buy.it / order.it

Will be .it ltd work for an English speaking market? or still go for the .com?

 

Hello,
Depend where you can setup your company, if you want to start up a company in Italy, and your services and products are in Italy, I hight recommend to a it domain and host your website in a Italy hosting company. If you want to create an international company dot com is better

Best

 

Haha, this is funny. No the market is the US. SO you recommend not to be funny on the name.it

 

Avoid the the .it then

 

The Internet in the USA is all about .com. People don't even think of another domain, so I'd suggest the .com version. However, why don't you buy both and keep whichever works better?

 

dot com all the way or .co.uk

 

If your main target is us then I would recommend to go with .com instead of .it. The country extension is acknowledge as the local target oriented, even you put an english content it doesn't help you much. However, the otherway is have both of them and promote both of them as partner site, one for us (english) and one for italian.

 

Fuck.it

 

.it domain wouldn't bring you anything so go for .com

 

Depends on how you plan to promote it. If SEO, then definitely go for .com, as .it domain will have geographical targeting set to Italy by default in google.
However, if SEO is not a priority and you want to concentrate on other promotion methods, then I don't see a reason not to use smth like buy.it instead of superlongdomainrelatedtoshopping.com

 

Thats a good one, funny I am sooo into seo but totally forgot about this. Amateur I am

 

I have heard dot coms help when it comes to SEO which is one of the main factors looked at when getting a domain. So if I were you, I'd go find a coupon and pick up a dot com domain somewhere.

 

That funny I did not think about coupons either. I just always pay the full price 9.45 on enom reseller account. But is good to think like NL (dutch) ans save some $$

 

Better go for .com, my friend

 

i strongly suggest you to use the .com domain...

 

I fully agree!

If you can tag your domain to end with an IT thereby making it trendy, then by all means go for IT... IT will catch on here in the states and you could potentially do much better with .it then .com. (the key being potentially, so if you are not planning on living up to your potential, go with the .com, as it sells itself).

 

I'm going to disagree here and suggest the *.it. If it works out to be a recognizable phrase that you can market, I'd go with that.

Kind of like del.icio.us and fur.ly