poll Develop on .com or ntld?

[DN Playbook]

If you were developing a site and had both the dot com name and matching nTld name, which one would you develop on? Dot com or redirect the dot com to the nTld?

For example: you own ShoeRepairGuide.com and ShoeRepair.guide. (Just pulled this one out of thin air.) What are your thoughts?

PS: I meant to have this post as a poll. Hit return key for tags and it got posted. Anyways, please leave your comments below.

 

[mhdoc]

As someone who mostly develops sites I find that if I am going to put serious effort into a site I am reluctant to use anything but a dot com. I have had several where it was a choice between a weaker dot com and a better dot info and I used the dot com.

That said, if people are going to find the site via search, I suspect most will never even notice what comes after the dot.

I think attitudes about domains in the general public are years behind what you see on NamePros.

 

[Recons.Com]

Dot com as the primary, the hack as forwarder, social media/advertising handle...

same as youtube.com, youtu.be, linkedin.com lnkd.in etc.

 

[DN Playbook]

Thanks for your input. I am seeing some entities developing on nTLD and forwarding the com to the site. But I think this is in an effort to bring awareness to and promote nTLD's.