For the uk only market I would get both if I could but develop the .co.uk and just point the .com
If you got just the .com and did'nt advertise the fact it was a .com - I would think most of the traffic would end up being a waste of bandwidth more than anything.
JMO :blink:
I just thought of an example - I reg'd a .co.uk about 2 years ago which because of the wording could only be really used in the uk market
The name is also a generic one in a pretty big market.
Since then Two different companies offering very similar services/products have started up - one uses the exact name in the .com the other uses the exact name with a hyphen in the .co.uk ext.
My Parked domain gets around 30 to 70 views per month and makes me more than the reg fee so It is very unlikely I will ever drop it, in fact it has just been renewed for another 2 years.
One of the companies - the .com one has made an offer but did'nt want to pay the mid to high £ xxx asking fee as it only cost me £7 :p
The more those two advertise the more traffic I get and the more clicks going to both their compeditors !!
.co.uk however i have a theory...a non-web compliant user is usualy more likely to go streight to the .com if they cant remember the extension, so make sure to get both
i have offered a dot com domain that i own to a owner of a dot co.uk , and he politely refused saying that in the UK , you have to use a .co.uk extension as the visitors like that ...
and i believe it .
im from the uk and although .co.uk is fine its only for the uk market. so thats why i go for .com's then you can target a much larger range. You'll find that most large uk companies use .com's over .co.uk's hovwever they do have the .co.uk's linking to the .com's basically you go on the .co.uk and it takes you to the .com
All our UK business clients who host with my main company only wish the .co.uk unless they have a trade that is global then they ask for the .com and any others to stop hijacking of traffic.
