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If a .com domain name is taken, should I go with .net, or a dash in the .com? If a .com domain name is taken, should I go with .net, or a dash in the .com?
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Old 10-04-2007, 08:46 PM   #1
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If a .com domain name is taken, should I go with .net, or a dash in the .com?
say I wanted the domain name pornogirls.com, but thats taken.
but pornogirls.net was available. and porno-girls.com was available.

which one would be better to have? pornogirls.net, or porno-girls.com?
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Old 10-04-2007, 08:48 PM   #2
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Take them both.I like the space better though
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Old 10-04-2007, 08:52 PM   #3
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Take them both.I like the space better though
yeah but i dont want to build different sites on both. which one should i promote?
you like the dash better?
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Old 10-04-2007, 08:55 PM   #4
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I don't mess with .net or hyphens. There are tons of great .com's still out there if you are creative.
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Old 10-04-2007, 09:25 PM   #5
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Old 10-04-2007, 10:00 PM   #6
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Old 10-04-2007, 10:05 PM   #7
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the dash is fine.... the only time the dash would ever hurt is if you are promoting your site by voice ie. radio ads or people talking about it to each other on the phone or face to face...

I would take the .com with the dash for sure
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Old 10-04-2007, 10:25 PM   #8
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Old 10-05-2007, 01:19 AM   #9
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You will be completely fucked to take either.... find a new name.
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Old 10-05-2007, 01:40 AM   #10
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you can never go wrong with a .com! and stay away from hyphens
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Old 10-05-2007, 01:52 AM   #11
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Old 10-05-2007, 01:56 AM   #12
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so basically we are telling you to find another name.com
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Old 10-05-2007, 02:19 AM   #13
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you can never go wrong with a .com! and stay away from hyphens
use hymens instead!
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Old 10-05-2007, 02:29 AM   #14
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Use Only coms.
I have 3 non .com domains and one is because or historical reasons and the other two came in a domain auction package with a com I was interested to buy.

Unless you are interested in some country specific stuff you should go with .com
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Old 10-05-2007, 02:39 AM   #15
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Old 10-05-2007, 02:52 AM   #16
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oh what the hell still only .coms? we have few very good .net and believe or not, nice seo traffic came from .info too!!! and one of our .net is at first place in google before original site and is making nice money for us, so please can someone tell me, why still .com? i am really interested in answer, im newbie and i think i dont know this secret. maybe i can be millionaire in few weeks then ... ;) respect and best wishes with your sites everyone!
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Old 10-05-2007, 03:39 AM   #17
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Because if youre dumb enough to go for the hyphen option or the net domain and pump serious traffic into it....... ultimately youre going to leak buckets of traffic to whoever has the dot com without hyphen.

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oh what the hell still only .coms? we have few very good .net and believe or not, nice seo traffic came from .info too!!! and one of our .net is at first place in google before original site and is making nice money for us, so please can someone tell me, why still .com? i am really interested in answer, im newbie and i think i dont know this secret. maybe i can be millionaire in few weeks then ... ;) respect and best wishes with your sites everyone!
walk up to any random non-internet savvy person, example, our customers... and tell them a domain name just randomly, continue with a current conversation, then about 10 minutes later ask them what domain name you gave them, 9 times out of 10, if it wasn't a .com they would most likely get it right, except in the .com version and not whatever it really is...

because of tv, its been ingraved into peoples heads to use .com instead of anything else....
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ultimately youre going to leak buckets of traffic to whoever has the dot com without hyphen.
what? if i pump traffic to .net and i beat someone who have .com, i have to care about his fault that he dont know how to make money from .com? or what i am not getting in here? my english is really bad, so i think i dont understand well your answer ...

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walk up to any random non-internet savvy person, example, our customers... and tell them a domain name just randomly, continue with a current conversation, then about 10 minutes later ask them what domain name you gave them, 9 times out of 10, if it wasn't a .com they would most likely get it right, except in the .com version and not whatever it really is...

because of tv, its been ingraved into peoples heads to use .com instead of anything else....
ok thank you, you are talking about conversation, but i never meet users of my sites in real life and i never talked to them, everyone came to my sites from search engines, and that is making me money. so if i have my .info sites in better possition than .com, why to care if its .info or .com? maybe if user dont bookmark my site he can get back to .com instead of mine .info, but its very few people who dont remember well i think ... and of course, i am not making big bussiness from tv advertisement, so thats why its not that important for me i think ...
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what? if i pump traffic to .net and i beat someone who have .com, i have to care about his fault that he dont know how to make money from .com? or what i am not getting in here? my english is really bad, so i think i dont understand well your answer ...
EXAMPLE:

Lets say you pump traffic to your teencat.net and its doing 10,000 visitors per day.

Teencat.com will automatically get say 2000 visitors (sometimes less, sometimes more) per day from people who are forgetting your site is .net - people remember .com because its so heavily marketed on all sites.

Do you want someone else to get 20% of your traffic for free?
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Old 10-05-2007, 09:15 AM   #21
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ok thank you, you are talking about conversation, but i never meet users of my sites in real life and i never talked to them, everyone came to my sites from search engines, and that is making me money. so if i have my .info sites in better possition than .com, why to care if its .info or .com? maybe if user dont bookmark my site he can get back to .com instead of mine .info, but its very few people who dont remember well i think ... and of course, i am not making big bussiness from tv advertisement, so thats why its not that important for me i think ...
ya gotta think about all aspects of traffic sources... i've had a few people i know personally ask me about a site and specificly say .com after it, but i knew they ment .net/org/info/ws/gaysite/fff/www/ghah so the average user thinks .com naturally over any other extension
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If you buy a domain with a hyphen in or a .net you'll always lose traffic to the .com

Spend a bit of time finding a decent .com
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say I wanted the domain name pornogirls.com, but thats taken.
but pornogirls.net was available. and porno-girls.com was available.

which one would be better to have? pornogirls.net, or porno-girls.com?
what does your gut tell you to do ?
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You guys need to get smart, I do good sales on info and net domains, and hyphen isn't bad either. Heck my best selling site at the moment is a info site
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Put a bookmark on your site so they don't forget.

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Because if youre dumb enough to go for the hyphen option or the net domain and pump serious traffic into it....... ultimately youre going to leak buckets of traffic to whoever has the dot com without hyphen.
That's only true if its a serious typein domain name... otherwise it makes no difference at all, since everyone clicks organic search terms.
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