discuss (Ex) NiceCar.com vs Nice.car

[kaffekoppen]

Lets say both where undeveloped:

NiceCar.com vs Nice.car

1. Who wins, and by how much?
2. Will it always stay the same?
3.Who wins the seo-battle for those two keywords? Will they be able to stand toe-to-toe.

(I know the .com will win today. But the question is for how long, and by how much)

 

[Ategy]

I guess i would pick nice.car in the end. .com right now, but i have a feeling it will become outdated with .com in the future.

It think it will be many decades before .com actually becomes outdated. However .. I do think it's a matter of time before the gTLD's catch up to .com in terms of acceptance. Now just exactly how much time depends .. and again, it really depends on the specific situation. The real questions are ..

1- Is the .com currently available for a reasonable price?
2- Is the shorter gTLD version an expensive premium with hefty renewal fees?
3- Are you keeping the site long-term or are you planning on selling it in the next couple of years?

What about the 3 keyword ones?
For example: findcheapflights.com vs findcheap.flights?
Does the same rules apply, or is it way worse when we mix in more keywords?

Again I think it really depends on the specifics. Unless it's a 2 word-term span-the-dot hack like cheap.flights (which I think is good), I don't think splitting a 2-word term over the dot for a 3-word domain is good. As such I find findcheap.flights a little awkward and would definitely give more points to the findcheapflights.com or even a .co/.net or .ccTLD (if appropriate). CheapFlights.Finder would be a much better alternative the FindCheap.Flights in my opinion.

But I think top10.books is relatively closer to top10books.com because the 2-word term "top10" is still together.

 

[kaffekoppen]

Very good points. Definitely makes sense. It will be interesting to see how it all unfolds in the future.

 

[urlurl]

i wouldn't buy nice.car until i secured nicecar.com first.

 

[jedaprin]

Nicecar.com is number one
Nice.car is number two

Both are great to own

 

[Dandelion]

I think it wouldn't make sense in the future too. Why?
1. Past data shows extension has nothing to do with SEO. Did .net, .org, .co etc. ever get priority? It's after all content that defies everything else in SEO.

2. It won't be fair. There will be thousands and more of extensions soon. How can google prioritize one extension over all others, just because of the extension name, although both have same quality content?

The day 'extension' takes over 'content' in SEO, the meaning of value will be corrupted.

Try creating a USA content on .in website and see how pretty well it will rank in the US. All these nGTLDs are nothing but fallacies and noise that will soon fade away.

No search engine will ever out market Google
No social network will ever out do Facebook
Likewise no extension will ever get close to .com

 

[Bob Hawkes]

An interesting discussion.

Right now I suspect that NiceCar.com would fetch a higher price, and that is because still most of general public regard the .com, .org, .edu, .net and their own country TLD as more authentic and trustworthy.

However, I am not sure how many years it will be, but I do believe that will change and their will be acceptance of many of the new gTLDs. When that happens, I think nice.car would be preferred since shorter and no superfluous content.

Also, eventually, I hope and believe that gradually we will gravitate away from .com if it is not a business. So if you wanted it for, say, a car club or show, I actually think .com is negative.

Thanks again for the discussion!