is .com important?

Hey,
My Primary Domain is a .co.uk because the .com belongs to a distant relative.
Will it have any affect on my business? because nissan dont own nissan.com or lg dont own lg.com.
What do you guys think?

 

It will have an affect, but probably in a different way than your thinking. For example, how a visitor remembers your sites address, .com is just so easy to throw behind a domain name, that it's easily remembered.

 

it is important if you main traffic is from type-in. if all your traffic is from SE, doesn't matter much

 

What is your target market?

 

the electronics market.

 

No I mean are you targetting the UK or international market?

 

both at the moment.

 

Are you getting many searches for your business name?

 

I create electronics all the over the shop,i get some traffic,mostly from unhappy customers

 

Ummmm.. you have completely lost me dude

 

If you're doing any kind of business online, then having a .com is a must. Everything else is 'second-best'.

 

Depends on your target market. If you only target a single country a ccTLD will often be good.

Norwegians searching for a norwegian shop are looking for the .no domain. (.com is often considered spamish since everyone can register them).

Whenever I start a new site targeting a specific country I try to register both the .com and ccTLD domains.

 

Not true at all. ccTLD are the .com of the local folks.

 

yes I agree with this
extremely they are same

 

H20, dcristo:
Look guys. I was replying to grafstein, the person who started this thread.

He's said that he's doing international business as well.
And he already has his local .co.uk domain
To reach an international market, he needs the .com

Question of whether .ccTLD is the dot com of local folks does not arise.

 

If international I would go for a .com

Hard to speculate if you would have any increase in profit though, too many variables.

 

OpenForSale, I am just replying to what you said. ccTLD's are not second best to .com if you are targetting a local market.

 

a wanted Grafstein.com but as im rarely in america so i cant give him a call.
According to whois he dosnt have an email account.
I belive him to be a distand relative of mine.

 

i really only like .com domains. it seems to be the default. .net is second. Some domains actually look better as .net

I used to own mijac.net and it looked and sounded alot better than mijac.com

 

I, as a Turkish, trust .co.uk more than .com in fact. Because everyone uses ".com" from everywhere, but mostly English people use ".co.uk".