Name,Name.com OR Name.Name?

If you were looking for a domain for your site or business would you chose the .com (if available) or the .name?

For example; I want to set up a dating site for cheese. (I don't really, obviously!)
Would you go for cheesedating.com or cheese.dating.

I know .com will always be "king", but if you are setting up a site in a specific area, does the new TLD's look more appealing?

 

I would take both. I think some of the newer extensions can be catchy and fun, and brandable in their own right. But like you said, .com is ~king. Personally, I wouldn't develop a "real" business on a new extension unless I had the .com. Build it on the new one, and direct the .com to your site. If you build a site on a new one w/o the .com, i think it's safe to assume some direct traffic will be lost to it. There's some people who make a pretty penny from siphoning off traffic. Not to mention that later down the road if the site is successful, and you don't own the .Com, you'll likely be spending more to acquire it. Go the safe route, and get them both.

 

If you are planning to have a commercial site (company, small biz, etc.), go with .com and secure .name just to protect the brand.

 

.COM every time

 

If you have time and patience get all that you can and dominate a brand!

 

I'd go for the .com, if that one is not available and this was for a personal site, then I'd either look at the .name or the .me, or possibly try to find some good variation of the .com

 

dating.dating
name.name
com.com
are best combinations and must TLDs according to website content.
Best regards,
Toniya

 

.com is the best and probably always will be but with .anything you have branding

 

I'd stick with the .com - most of the new TLDs are gimmicks and won't be memorable to anyone who isn't clicking on a link you've put right under their nose; which is especially important if any of your advertising is going to be done offline!

 

If .com is still available then go for it.

 

I often use the domain name. com because it best

 

I never go after .name extension, either .com or I keep searching.

 

Why do you go after .com only?

 

It the most popular and used extension, why go for another extension.

 

.com,

 

.com is king. I've seen some clever startups (apps) recently use things like start.up (not real, just an example). Personally, unless you can come up with something really clever, go with .com. It's much stronger and you'll need much better SEO for the other ones I think. Anyways I think the search engines like .com better, then .net websites. @sweetpea69 has an interesting suggestion worth considering I think.

Good luck! Keep up posted.

 

Really, why do you think that? Surely it is the size and content of the site that matters most?

 

I think when it comes to domain names, .com is better than .me or something. But of course a site with solid content, even a free site not hosted by the writer or domain name-- like a Blogger blog, can be ranked well if the content is there. I don't really think size matters as much as content. Then again, you can have tons of content and not rank at all. You have to "play the game" a little and optimize SEO, etc. otherwise no one will see your site, or it's less likely. You can't expect a site to rank just because you put a bunch of work into it and it has great content.

Yes it matters if you have content, of course. But first you need a domain to stake your place online in. Then you fill it with content. But www. thisisasuperlongnameandilikestrawberries. me isn't setting itself up to be a profitable site. That's all.