.com, .net, .ws, etc - does it matter?

This might be a stupid question, but I don't know a lot about SEO.

So anyway.. There are tons of great .ws domains available for registration.

And I was just wondering if search engines care about the domain extension? Will a .com domain get better results than the same .ws domain, or vice versa?

 

Im wondering the same question, i've got a .us domain which is pr1

 

All that matters are the backlinks.
.com domain has much more financial value though
Also people tend to like and trust more .com.

 

from a seo perspective no. From a branding perspective absolutely.

 

from a seo perspective yes. ws is a country.

 

Ok cool. Thanks for the information

 

Yeah most people trust .com (or the commercial equivalent of your geographical TLD - co.uk, co.nz, com.au, etc.)

 

You have to ask yourself what is better. Is a Ferari better than a Yugo for horse power. Then you have to think well I could buy the Yugo and put a V-8 under the hood with twin turbos or supercharger and then supermodify the rest of the engine to outperform the Ferari and yes then it would be equal to the ferari or maybe better but it cost you twice as much to create such a car. I think I will go with the .com and just waste my time slowly building backlinks. Besides a Ferari is more recognizable than a Yugo ,,, I meant a .com is more recognizable than a .ws

 

im thinkin .COm is best for SEO

 

I did an experiment with a dot com and a dot info...guess which got indexed first?

http://www.someuseless.info/501/how-to-get-indexed-by-google-fast/