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.CO or .ORG ?

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  • .co

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    47.1%
  • .org

    55 
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    52.9%
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which is better for business?

.com is taken

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I would personally add a third option to the poll "Choose a different domain name in .com"

.co is going to bleed to much traffic over to the .com

.org is not the best extension for a company, IMO.
 
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i Think .co better for company name.:xf.smile:
 
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.com.co/.co - both are for Colombia... apriori.
 
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.co is better for company
 
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For business, for commercial enterprise, of course .co.
.org might be good for some information business, something more humanitarian.
 
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You can play off of .co with a business, it even sounds a little trendy. .org doesn't have that edge, and it's often associated with nonprofits.

Easy choice.
 
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Long answer short, .org is for non-profit organizations, so better go with .co if you are a company or a business which makes profit.
 
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That's the tough one, as these are my go-to extensions when .COM is taken.

I haven't read the thread yet, but I assume there are a lot of "old man yelling at the kids to stay off my .ORG lawn" posts, but everyday I see more for-profit businesses on .ORG,. I wouldn't run a monster e-commerce biz like Amazon off it, but for a small to medium consulting, hosting, domain-related, business development, branding, crypto, etc. biz it works nicely as you have a significantly higher choice of premium domains for cheap and SEO is ultra high-end.

As for .CO, it's a great second choice as it's increasingly being recognized as the "place to go when the .COM is taken", but demand is rising and it's tougher to find a good deal on premium names.

Personally, if it's within budget, buy both the .ORG and .CO, then experiment with what gives you the best result and redirect the other one.
 
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.org is my choice. it looks worthier than .co
 
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i think i would rather .org or .net domain and not .co
 
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i think i would rather .co domain and not .org

In fact, the .co end users I sell are much larger than .org
 
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I won't get .co unless the site is targeted for Colombia.
 
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That's the tough one, as these are my go-to extensions when .COM is taken.

I haven't read the thread yet, but I assume there are a lot of "old man yelling at the kids to stay off my .ORG lawn" posts, but everyday I see more for-profit businesses on .ORG,. I wouldn't run a monster e-commerce biz like Amazon off it, but for a small to medium consulting, hosting, domain-related, business development, branding, crypto, etc. biz it works nicely as you have a significantly higher choice of premium domains for cheap and SEO is ultra high-end.

As for .CO, it's a great second choice as it's increasingly being recognized as the "place to go when the .COM is taken", but demand is rising and it's tougher to find a good deal on premium names.

Personally, if it's within budget, buy both the .ORG and .CO, then experiment with what gives you the best result and redirect the other one.

That is me, when it comes to .org domains. Its the Public Interest Registry and maybe its old-school thinking, but when a see a for-profit commerce site sitting on an .org domain, I figure its some kind of scam site.
 
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The most recent advertisement I have seen of a .org was for a charity and so I still mostly associate .org with that. However, I am seeing a lot of organisations using .org more for the corporate ends of their business, for which it clearly works, but as a front-face to the public, .org is still strange to me.
 
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That is me, when it comes to .org domains. Its the Public Interest Registry and maybe its old-school thinking, but when a see a for-profit commerce site sitting on an .org domain, I figure its some kind of scam site.

Similarly if I see a site on a .co targeting U.S. users, I figure it's some kind of scam.
 
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Times change, and like I said, I would not operate a HUGE site like Amazon on an .ORG, but lots of consulting, networking, hosting, branding, biz development, consulting, and other similar for-profit SMB business sectors use .ORG and actually make money.

Plus, "non-profit" doesn't mean they don't make money and many take in billions and their execs make millions per year, it's just a classification for taxation, and hardly means they're all out there "saving the planet". The majority are scams too - fronts to make the executive branch (usually family and friends) a shitload of money.
 
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.co is for Colombia, if used for anything else its not a long term solution
 
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I have

preachings.org

this domain will not be good with .co extension...
 
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For security reason, a business should never use a .co. Especially in banking industry, or ecommerce, or business that store users' sensitive information. It has a very high risk of leaking the sensitive information to the .com owner. Additionally, it looks ugly. For example, when a normal people (not a domainer) sees a sign like << mycompany.co >> they'll think that it forgot the "m" (bad impression). They don't know that the .co also exists. So, my vote is .org
 
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If for your own use, get a different name with .com. Why not ?
 
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