. com is the best Friday, April 10, 2009

Besides recommending the .COM extension, what makes up a good domain name?
.COM is definitely the strongest brand indicating an Internet presence.
The short answer: .COM is recognizable as Internet domain by the largest group of people when compared to the wide-spread of other generic top level domain extensions (gTLD) like: .NET .ORG .EDU or .GOV

That said I still believe that .COM will remain the strongest domain brand.
* Used by businesses, other organizations and individuals
* For profit and non-profit, commercial, noncommercial, personal, ... basically any legal purpose.
* Allows registrants from all over the world.
* A very reasonable registration fee. As opposed to some country code top level domains, which cost more than 100 times the .COM fee.
* A newly setup .COM domain propagates very quickly on the Internet. Meaning you can use it worldwide in less than the usual 48 hour time period.
Some SEO (search engine optimization) specialists also claim, that .COM domains are treated favorably by search engines, especially by Google. Although Google likes .ORG domains these days as well.
With .COM you simply cannot go wrong.

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