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02.21.07
What to Do When Your .com is Taken
 By
Rich Brooks
Recently I setup a survey at SurveyMonkey trying to gauge people's feelings and impressions on the top-level domains such as .com, .net., .biz and so on. I purposefully left off .gov and .edu top-level domains because you're not supposed to be able to get them as a small business.
I thought I'd share this completely unscientific survey with you:
Question 1: Imagine you visit a new site. Please rank the following top-level domains on the overall impression they give you of the site and company. (One answer per domain, please.)
There weren't any surprises in the answers. Like a diagonal line through the chart, respondents ordered the domains as .com, .org, .net, .biz, .info, .name and .[any country]. The .[any country] result represented anything from .us to .de to .jp. (Like I said, unscientific.)
Question 2: Please rank the following top-level domains in order of preference for your own Web site.
Again, no surprises. The only deviation from the diagonal line was .[any country] outranked .name.
Question 3: For each top-level domain name, please enter your initial thoughts on what they represent.
Continue reading this article.
About
the Author:
Rich Brooks is president of flyte new media, a Web site design and Internet marketing company in Portland, Maine. Flyte works with small businesses to build professional Web sites that often include e-commerce, Flash and content management systems. They promote their clients' sites through search engine optimization, e-mail marketing, business blogs and podcasts, and viral marketing.
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