difference between .co and .com site

Please any one inform me in detail about the difference between .co and .com domain!

 

.com is the oldest and toppest extension for a business site
.co .biz .info are the crap tlds created to register the same names as .com once again

 

.com is a gTLD means Generic Top Level Domains and
.co is a ccTLD means Country Code Top Level Domains

.co stands for Colombia......

.co is now very popular ccTLD and one of the fastest growing cctld....and heavily promoted by domain registrar like godaddy....

 

As mentioned above, .COM is TLD, but .CO is ccTLD.
IMO, unless most of your visitors will be from Colombia, it is recomended not to go with .CO
Your site's search engine ranking would me lower than you excepted.

 

.com (commercial) is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used on the Internet's Domain Name System. It was one of the original top-level domains (TLDs), established in January 1985, and has grown to be the largest TLD in use. It was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense. The DoD contracted its maintenance to Stanford Research Institute. On January 1, 1993 the National Science Foundation assumed responsibility for its maintenance, as .com was primarily being used for non-defense interests.

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thanks for your reply. its so helpful.

 

dot com(.com) refers to a commercial website. dot co (.co) would be sites at specific countries. Say co.in (India) co.uk(United Kingdom) co.nz(New zealand). For eg. google.com opens as google.co.in in India.

There are many different Domain name for different functionality such as .Edu use for Educational site etc.

 

where did you find this statement? can you prove it?
can you prove that your search engine ranking or SERP will go down if you use a .co domain and most of the users are not from Colombia?
where did you find this?

 

Although .CO is a ccTLD, domain registras are now promoting it as the best alternative to .COM. This is similar to the promotion given to .WS sometime back. However there is a big difference between the prices of .CO & .COM. The low prices you see for .CO in some sites are only for the first year.

 

.co is a regional TLD, whereas .com is a top-level TLD irrespective of region.

 

that is good for me to know, because it seems to be marketed as .co for "company" and when ".com" is already taken

 

.CO is already meaningful and recognizable in multiple languages and cultures.

It's the acronym for "company". For most people1, the two letters – CO – are recognized as meaning company and/or corporation across the globe. Look around and someone near you is already using the letters CO in that context.

It's used in country-code domain extensions. More than 20 countries use .CO to mean company and/or commercial content in their websites (e.g. .co.uk, .co.in, .co.il, .co.jp, etc.). By adding a .CO domain to their online marketing strategy, country specific websites can now have a version of their site serving their global customers.


In other uses it has geographic meaning. CO means Colombia and it also means the State of Colorado in the USA.

 

.com is usual and commercial extension which rather use in majority on internet other than .co extension, sincerely by my point of view .com has more power than .co extension so i rather prefer .com extension more than any other extension, after that i prefer .org extension but not .co

 

A year or so ago ".co" domains were selling for $29.99, right now they don't seem worth anything... I wonder what happened...

 

.co is loosing reputation.

 

.com refers to a commercial website .co would be sites at specific countries like Colombia.

 

hmmm... Nice discussion going on here. I heard .com is stand for commercial website and .co stand for country website.I learn new thing from this post and which is gtld,cctld.

Thanks for this informative post.

 

Go for .com its the best solution if you go for any ccTld you will have to again register .com

 

While .co is a ccTLD (Columbia) it is often marketed as an alternative to .com since it can be taken as an abbreviation for company. Market renewal rate on a .co is around $24.99 while .com is about $10.99. .com is still considered the preferred extension among most domainers.

 

.co is gaining back its power. A lot of people seem to already recognize it... However, it doesn't change the fact that .com is always preferable and the best domain.