Would you choose .net or .co for an ecommerce domain name?
 

for a mainstream store and .com and .org are taken
I can buy is.net and .co

.com and .co have nothing on them so no competition there, but I dont want to overpay.

Would you choose .net or.co?

If you are selling gay sex I think I still have gaysex.co - 'Gay is the new Black'...

If you don't get the .com you have a huge traffic leak in your branding.

That said .co is insane. .Net is more realistic.

thanks, .com is for sale for a very high price but and no one one is doing anything on it for a long time. im hoping that if the .net starts to grow and make money then ill put investment on .com

thanks

it's an estore, not a feeder
com or nothing :2 cents:

.net is way better than .co

.net
 

.net because .co is used for uk and ireland...

.co = Colombia
.co.uk = UK
.ie = Ireland

As you can see I am very worldly.... not really.. A lifetime on IRC so I know em all off by heart :winkwink:

neither.. would avoid .net for a store.. even more would avoid .co
Could always pre/postcede with words like "buy" "shop" "store" "sale" etc.
Bottom line .com is the way to go.. use a hyphen if you -absolutely- have to or think of another name.

Nevertheless, might be risky putting $$/effort into the .net hoping to pickup the .com from them later.

The questions to ask:

(1) Has he ever run an online business before?
(2) If yes to (1), did he ever run it on a domain like a .co or a .net?
(3) If yes to (2), did he ever find that he lost all his customers to the .com
(4) If yes to (3), did he then regret using a domain other than the .com
(5) If yes to (4), then why did he start a business on a domain other than a .com?
(6) If no to (4), then he probably didn't have enough traffic to lose any custom.

It's been said time and time again, NEVER ever start an online project (except in rare situations where its a very limited thing like a non-online business with a simple web presence) on a domain that is not .com - you will regret it.

If you get any kind of traffic, whether its .net or .co, you will lose a large proportion of your traffic to the .com because people will NEVER remember the extension and will always just assume your site is .com

Again, what I say is valid if you expect a large online presence with high traffic to your site. A much, much better option would be to choose something available or just add a number at the end of the word and then put a .com and then brand that as your online store. At least it's a dot com.

Yes, very risky - infact, it's a bad idea.... many of us own .coms which receive traffic from people who own the .co or the .net or the .org or some other extension.

As soon as the owner sees traffic at his .com coming from mis-types of your domain, the price will go up and if he is earning anything from your traffic (and your marketing money), the price will go even higher and it will really irritate you that he is making easy money from your own efforts/spending.

There's tons of new tlds, maybe look for one that is relevant to your product and won't have people going to the dot Com by mistake.

Change the name and buy com.

.net is for those who wanna evolve in future. You must buy a domain if you want be .com

Sure and maybe .net is the second best as an alternative but you still lose traffic. End of the day, how many major big traffic sites out of the top 1000 sites are run on something other than a dot com where, at the same time, that company doesn't also own the dot com?

I'm sure it would be less than 2%

Mistake.

Once the .Net gets "big" the person owning the .com now knows the .Com is worth even more.

What is your idea of a high price?

over $1,000, based on a whim with NO idea if it will make any money.

are you kidding ?, for estore and mainstream .com is the only option.
huge traffic/potential customers leak.

if yiu cant afford the .com
choose another one.....

the extension doesn't matter anymore IMO

If you are not willing to risk $1,000 (unless you don't have the cash), the idea is probably not that great.

Is the domain good enough that you could "dump it" if you fail and get at least 1/2 of it back?

you'll still have that problem. com is the defacto tld. you can have whatever.net or what.ever and people will still put .com at the end.

if i were the OP i would try and be creative and find some similar names that either aren't taken or able to be acquired for a reasonable price rather than use anything other than .com.

This.

In my opinion having a new TLD for branding can be a great move IF you own the .com as well.

Overstock.com dropped the O.Co concept. Search for O.co and Overstock.com is the default.

Trademark the name -- the dot com cannot win a UDRP

Compare this cost (trademark and arbitration) against buying the com version of the name you want.

If the name costs less that $9,000 buy that domain registration or look for a name that you can register in dot com and pay to trademark that name now ** (added: when that venture makes real money) so it can't be registered in any new gTLD.

Nice accelerated tax deduction for 2014 ...

just so no one gets confused, you can't trademark something and then think that gives you rights to a domain name registered before the trademark. if your trademark comes before the domain, you may have some chance but certainly not after the domain registration.

thanks thats what I thought too

No. 8char

No you can't prove bad faith.

WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2010-2011


BUT;

WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2007-1921

If you transfer that domain to a third party, that transfer would be encumbered with the infringement in bad faith if the domain is used for cybersquatting.

I would have to spend time I haven't got now reading the whole decision but these look favorable.

This is all true.

So says the cheapskate trying to brand a variation of "hardcore" with 3 digits. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

To the OP, stick with .com If you can't find the right keywords, look for another .com alternative. Weigh the tradeoffs of making a one time investment in a quality memorable name vs. perpetually wasting your time, effort and marketing budget branding a .net, .co or other TLD.

I would choose a different .com or a good single word .randomextension.

Define e-commerce?

If you are going to do $millions a year potentially be careful of the branding name of the site and TLD.


If we are talking a white label, amazon, ebay or yahoo store, or some affiliate site then there is a lot of leeway in the domain name and TLD.

udrp is a poor system that favors complainants as they pay them. if people didn't win some, no one would use it. some panelists are total morons and will hand over domains when they have no business doing so. always go for a 3 panel if you ever get one against you.