Anyone Find A Dot Com With Other Extensions Taken ?

[accuname]

Just wondering if anyone found a .COM domain name with other extensions taken.
So if you are hunting for domain names and you find one where the .net, .org., .info etc... is taken but surprisingly .com is available for reg.

 

[fab]

It happens when the .com just dropped by the owner.

 

[painperdu]

I've found quite a few. Most aren't worth it, they're usually names for sites that are very local and have almost no interest outside of that organization, but there are a few good ones.

A lot of times people go to register the name they want but the .com is taken so they settle for the other TLDs. Over the years the .com variant gets dropped and the owner of the other TLDs don't bother keeping an eye on the .com variant.

Another situation is when a sale takes place on the other TLDs and speculators go wild registering everything they can think of except for the .com variant. Silly.

I've actually snatched a few good ones this way.

 

[ablaye]

What you can do is register the .com and try contacting the owners of the other TLDs to sell it to them.

 

[painperdu]

What you can do is register the .com and try contacting the owners of the other TLDs to sell it to them.

Be carefull how you do that, though, because it could be considered cyber squatting and bring on some type of legal action.

Many times the organization that registers other TLDs variants but not the .com flavor are very specific in their name. If you can't prove that you have any legitimate use of the name outside of just to resell it then this could spell trouble for you.

 

[Domainate.com]

Just wondering if anyone found a .COM domain name with other extensions taken.
So if you are hunting for domain names and you find one where the .net, .org., .info etc... is taken but surprisingly .com is available for reg.

Many of the expired .com names I register are ones taken in other extensions. They are pretty rare in relation to all .com daily expired names, but that doesn't stop a vast majority of expired .com names with .net taken to still be bad names.

 

[Jo]

I've been finding ones with the .com and .net and .info regged but not the .org. I find that strange. And some with the .com and .org but not the .net which is even stranger. I've hardly ever seen where the .com is not regged when the rest are, sounds like a good find. It would depend on how good the name is before I'd reg however.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

I see lots of .org names where the .com is available. Most of the .org's don't want the .com because it would make them seem too commercial when they are non-profits. A lot of them are 4-6 letter acronyms with little value in the .com.

If there is no copyright infringement, they might be worth looking into for traffic if the traffic would be targeted enough to get clicks.

Sometimes, you'll find the .com was dropped by the same owner who had the other tld's. They just regged the .com first, and the other TLD's will be dropped later since they were regged later. In fact all are worthless. Sometimes they are valuable, but you have to do your homework to find out.