Extension if not .com

[sunken]

I am buying a domain name to develop. If the .com is taken, what is the next best one (would be entertainment related), .net or .us?

 

[REM503]

.net would be better than .us, in my opinion.

Personally, I only like .us names for locations, such as detroit.us or orangecounty.us.

 

[Virgil]

I'd go for the .net, unless the .org suits the name better.

 

[MissFlora]

I will say .net as well but if it is informational, you can try .info too. But that is only if is premium otherwise that is not advisable.

Flora.

 

[Aajiz]

The preference order is as under, IMO:

.com , .org , .net , .us , .info . .biz , .tv ..............

Regards

 

[kw31]

The preference order is as under, IMO:

.com , .org , .net , .us , .info . .biz , .tv ..............

Regards

I would put .net in front of .org :imho:

 

[-db-]

My opinion....

If you are primarily targeting people in America, then I would choose a .US domain.

I would consider .NET if your service/product is directly related to the Internet, such as ISP or hosting.

Whichever way you go, good luck!

 

[webgear]

I think .net is better

 

[calian]

I would put .net in front of .org :imho:

Ditto

 

[painperdu]

Hey, it really is the content that matters and if you have great and unique content then you can give it any address you want -people will remember it. If the content is similar to many other sites then other things like domain name, search engine marketing, link exchanges become much more important to getting traffic.

In the irony of all ironies of the domain name world, I find it interesting that one of the great resources for domain name speculators is a website with a .sc TLD!

.Com is still the grand daddy of TLDs and a good one will get you traffic no matter what content you have. .Net and .org are highly niched but may still take a bit of promotion to pull in traffic. All the rest of TLDs will take just about the same amount of promotion to get going.

To your specific question, the US is saturated in and identified with entertainment so I think the .us TLD is more appropriate.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

(would be entertainment related)

.US
.net always seems business/internet related. .US is just more of a "fun" extension, IMHO

-Allan

 

[RogueWriter]

.net is still a little more popular, I think. painperdu is right though, if you have good content, any tld will work.