Comments on: Should You Secure .com AND .net for Your Domain?

By: SEO Seattle

SEO Seattle — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:32:51 +0000

I even purchased the .info when it was only .99. I think that anything containing the same string as yours within the actual domain can be a threat.

By: karsten h.

karsten h. — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:49:45 +0000

This is quite an interesting topic. It seems as though many people are making free WordPress and blogger.com blogs and websites. It wouldn’t affect them much would it? However, owning these subdomain blogs is sort of self-restraining anyway.

By: Rohit

Rohit — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:33:25 +0000

There are some smart businessmen out there who recognise potential blogs, buy it’s other available versions and finally sell them for higher prices.
So, I advice bloggers to decide the importance of their blogs and then go for buying other versions. First secure .com then .org and then in for .net and others.

By: Turil

Turil — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:13:43 +0000

Funny, I never even imagined wanting the .net domain. But I always have to struggle with myself in deciding whether to get the .org or the .com. But then I’m not a corporation, I’m an artist and activist and philosopher who makes no money off my blog, so that might have something to do with the difference in priorities.

By: MJ Doyle

MJ Doyle — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:00:57 +0000

It’s funny that you should write this post now. I had come up with a brand name for my new product and was about to go ahead with it despite the fact that the .com was taken. I looked and it was only parked so I figured it was no big deal.

After reading this article, I thought I’d better check out the .net and it was taken and parked as well. Then, I noticed .ca was taken but not parked. I checked out the website and it was the exact brand I had come up with. The logo even looked the same as I had wanted mine to look.

This post really saved me, thanks!

By: John

John — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:10:56 +0000

Yep, if it’s a major project/blog/company I’d recommend to secure both (and why not others like biz, info, etc.?)

If it’s a secondary stuff like another personal blog or whatever… a single myanotherpersonalblog dot com would be enough.

I actually often search available domain names in all TLDs (com, net, biz, us, uk) with a small and fast desktop SoftFuse Whois http://www.softfuse.com/whois/ It saves me a lot of time. Then I decide is it a good enouth domain name to register it with .net extention as well…

By: Husac

Husac — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:40:54 +0000

Well…i would like to secure them both, but it really depends on what are you doing- if it’s a small blog i think it’s a waste of your money. Regards

By: Fyre Vortex

Fyre Vortex — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:19:18 +0000

Yeah. I was searching for domains for 3 months and then someone somehow was tracking my searches and snapped up the .com. I kept checking if the .net/.org were free and a month later, .net was also snapped.

I then made the move and got .org.

… I hate those people who track your searches.

By: Jensen

Jensen — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:32:18 +0000

Do if you can! Nowadays most good .com or .net domains are registered and a lot of them are parked. What a pity!

By: Making Web make Sense

Making Web make Sense — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:50:08 +0000

I would secure both .net and .com, and if my blog is really successfull I would like to buy the one’s that match the blog name if spelled wrong. Just like Google … I will not be as successfull as them but this way its easier for my readers to reach me when required.

By: shannon

shannon — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:20:34 +0000

I have a client whoes competitior bought a miss spelling of his website and directed to his web page to steal customers…..watch out for this.

shannon

http://www.eighthorses.com/

By: Gary Sanet

Gary Sanet — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:31:47 +0000

Thats a really great idea.

Can you suggest some sites which we can use to track when the related top level domains expire?

By: Best European Cruises

Best European Cruises — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:45:02 +0000

if you secure .net and .com then there a host of others that people could use so you would end up buying all the domains such as .biz .eu .in

only worth it if you have a big brand and can justify the expense

By: Dr. Mike Wendell

Dr. Mike Wendell — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:24:11 +0000

Having thought about this overnight now, I have to agree with the “Buy everything” comment further up. I just visited a website that’s on the *.net but I typed the *.com and got a porn site and a very long lecture from a librarian. Remembering what happened to the whitehouse domain should be a lesson for everybody. :)

By: Make Money Online

Make Money Online — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:58:32 +0000

Having .com and .net is very important for your site, if you are in a specific country then getting the extension for the same is good, like for US it is .us, for Australia .au.

By: ITrush

ITrush — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:32:21 +0000

Very interesting, now I know the importance of having both the .net and .com.

By: Giles Dawe

Giles Dawe — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:45:35 +0000

But this a lesson warned as I see you’ve got a .net name only? Why not purchase a .org also?

By: Dean Saliba

Dean Saliba — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:37:12 +0000

I have the .com for my 2 main blogs, I’ve not bothered getting any other domains variations..

By: myddnetwork

myddnetwork — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:38:30 +0000

I think that securing .mobi is a wise choice, knowing that mobile Internet is growing more and more

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:13:44 +0000

I thought I was just being paranoid when I bought 5 versions of each domain name. But if ProBlogger says it’s a good idea, then I know it’s a great one! :)