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Go Daddy allies to take over America
Apparently someone, somewhere, thinks they can make money off the .us domain. Outside the U.S. many websites have the country code domain rather than a .com. For instance NELA's German branch is nela.de whereas the U.S. branch is nela-usa.com. Well there's a .us one as well, and Go Daddy thinks they can sell it better.
I don't doubt that they can sucker people into it, but right now, at least in this country if you don't have a .com address for your company you're in trouble. Even when people know that the address is .net or .tv they're frequently going to just automatically type in .com
I talked about it a little bit in my recent posting "What's in a Name?". While you don't need to have your specific name you're better off with a slight variant and a .com at the end, than your exact name and a .us ending it. Because if someone else owns megayachts.com and you're megayachts.us how often is your competeitor going to steal your business just by accident?
If you want to have the .us domain be your primary domain name because it sounds cute go for it, but just be sure to also have the exact same domain in .com and pointed at your site, otherwise you're in for headaches.
Apparently someone, somewhere, thinks they can make money off the .us domain. Outside the U.S. many websites have the country code domain rather than a .com. For instance NELA's German branch is nela.de whereas the U.S. branch is nela-usa.com. Well there's a .us one as well, and Go Daddy thinks they can sell it better.
I don't doubt that they can sucker people into it, but right now, at least in this country if you don't have a .com address for your company you're in trouble. Even when people know that the address is .net or .tv they're frequently going to just automatically type in .com
I talked about it a little bit in my recent posting "What's in a Name?". While you don't need to have your specific name you're better off with a slight variant and a .com at the end, than your exact name and a .us ending it. Because if someone else owns megayachts.com and you're megayachts.us how often is your competeitor going to steal your business just by accident?
If you want to have the .us domain be your primary domain name because it sounds cute go for it, but just be sure to also have the exact same domain in .com and pointed at your site, otherwise you're in for headaches.
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