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?

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?

I don't mess with .net or hyphens. There are tons of great .com's still out there if you are creative.

.com.com.com.com.com.com.com..com.com.com.com.com. com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.comcom.com .com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.c om.com.com.com.comcom.com.com.com.com.com.com.com. com.com.com.com.com.com

muahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

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:2 cents:

com
com
and
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You will be completely fucked to take either.... find a new name.

you can never go wrong with a .com! and stay away from hyphens

i agree!

.com.com.com.com.com.com.com..com.com.com.com.com. com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.comcom.com .com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.com.c om.com.com.com.comcom.com.com.com.com.com.com.com. com.com.com.com.com.com

so basically we are telling you to find another name.com

use hymens instead! :thumbsup

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

porn0girls.com

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! :thumbsup

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.

.com .com .com .com .com .com .com .com .com .com .com .com .com .com

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....

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 ...

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 ... :2 cents: and of course, i am not making big bussiness from tv advertisement, so thats why its not that important for me i think ...

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?

send an offer for the dot com, i prefer dot coms

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

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

what does your gut tell you to do ?

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

get both.

Put a bookmark on your site so they don't forget.

@cranki - Funny ;-)

That's only true if its a serious typein domain name... otherwise it makes no difference at all, since everyone clicks organic search terms.