{"id":2136,"date":"2011-02-18T22:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T22:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.365ezone.com\/pointers-on-picking-a-high-quality-www-name\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T22:01:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T22:01:05","slug":"pointers-on-picking-a-high-quality-www-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/365ezone.com\/blog\/pointers-on-picking-a-high-quality-www-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointers On Picking A High-quality WWW Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One common question I stumble upon is from people who can&#8217;t get the &#8220;.com&#8221; domain of their picking, but find the &#8220;.net&#8221;, &#8220;.org&#8221; or other country-specific top level domains (TLDs) available (like .de, .nu, .sg, etc). Should they try for these? <\/p>\n<p>The answer is not as simple as you might think. If your website or trade caters to the local community, such as a pizza delivery business or recruitment agency or the like, then it makes sense to get a country-specific web name. You actually benefit from having such a local domain because the people in your country know that they&#8217;re dealing with a local entity, which is what they want. After all, if they stay in the United Kingdom, they&#8217;re unlikely to want to try to order pizza from pizzaparlour.com, which suggests an international site. You&#8217;ll have better luck calling it pizzaparlour.co.uk, ie, with a UK domain. <\/p>\n<p>What if yours is a site or company that can benefit from an international audience? There are actually many schools of thought on this. I&#8217;ll just mention a few regular ones. <\/p>\n<p>The first school of thought goes on the premise that it is better to have a domain name of your choice &#8220;myperfectdomain&#8221; even if it has a TLD of &#8220;.net&#8221;, &#8220;.org&#8221; or some other country specific extension, than to end up selecting an obscure domain name for the simple reason you can&#8217;t get your first choice. Thus they would settle for domain names like &#8220;myperfectdomain.de&#8221; or &#8220;myperfectdomain.net&#8221; etc. Contrary to this is the argument that if you get a country specific domain, people might think that your business only caters to that country. <\/p>\n<p>Another school of thought finds that &#8220;.net&#8221; and &#8220;.org&#8221; extensions are actually very satisfactory domain names. For some, the &#8220;.org&#8221; extension actually describes the non-profit nature of their organisation. So, for example, the famous Apache web server can be found at &#8220;apache.org&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Other people settle for the &#8220;.com&#8221; extension and no less. As grounds for their arguments, they cite the browser algorithms used to locate a website when a user simply types a name like &#8220;acme&#8221; into the browser. It appears that, the browser searches for a domain name &#8220;acme.com&#8221; before attempting &#8220;acme.net&#8221;, etc. As such, people who do that will be delivered to your competitor&#8217;s site if you do not also own the &#8220;.com&#8221; extension. Indeed, even if people do not rely on their browser to complete their typing, many simply assume a &#8220;.com&#8221; extension when they type a domain name, so if your business is &#8220;Acme&#8221;, they&#8217;ll just assume your domain name is &#8220;acme.com&#8221; rather than &#8220;acme.net&#8221; or some other such name. <\/p>\n<p>Visit Sticky Web Domains today to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purchasedomainname.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">purchase domain name<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purchasedomainname.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">domain broker<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purchasedomainname.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">domain name reseller<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One common question I stumble upon is from people who can&#8217;t get the &#8220;.com&#8221; domain of their picking, but find the &#8220;.net&#8221;, &#8220;.org&#8221; or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[176,344,345,702,714],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","tag-buy-domain-name","tag-domain-name-registration","tag-domain-name-reseller","tag-purchase-domain-name","tag-register-domain-name"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/365ezone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/365ezone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/365ezone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365ezone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365ezone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/365ezone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/365ezone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365ezone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/365ezone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}