Shop or Store?

[Name Trader]

If I'm selling domains should I use shop or store in the domain name. ie DomainShop.com or DomainStore.com (not my domains).

 

[biggie]

If I'm selling domains should I use shop or store in the domain name. ie DomainShop.com or DomainStore.com (not my domains).

:talk:


perhaps this flip of the script, may help:

www.shopnames.com

sold that name years ago to a fellow domainer

 

[Zmonsterdomains.com]

.SHOP

More .com domains are being created with the word shop in it, than the word store. I've been using Domainview from VeriSign (the com Registry) for about a year now for keywords. Shop, is always at the top of the most registered.

Below is a screenshot showing the last 24 hours. The word shop is bigger and bolder than the other and showing to have been in a registered .com name 592 times in the last 24 hours. Store 274 times in the other screen shot. So I would say that shop is more popular.

http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/domain-names/web-presence/domain-management/domainview/index.xhtml#

 

[BizBot]

Stu, I would definitely use Shop over Shoppe. But it would really depend on the name to decide between Shop and Store. Both are good to sell to an enduser.

 

[WritersWrite]

My choice would be shop. Store gives a much colder connotation.

 

[forge]

This reminds me of something I saw recently on Flippa:

Stock-Bazaar (dot)com ( Bazaar means Market. So the domain is related with Stock Market daily News and Updates)

Hilarious!!!

Personally I prefer "bodega".

 

[SimpleDomaining]

i think it all depends on a product you sell and on how big you are and also how good the second keyword fits it.
if you have like 10 products in your inventory then its definitely a shop. if your product is being made then its a shop (example: signshop vs signstore). if your product is related to any type of a grocery then its a store. shoestore sounds that it would have bigger selection vs shoeshop. but in same time shoeshop sounds that you can get something custom done with your shoe. but if the second keyword is more descriptive on what kind of things user is going to find then it depend on a sound (veganstore fits better than veganshop, but americanstore and americanshop both fit, but then you go back to the amounts and kind of products). cakestore sounds like a place to find a big selection of cakes. cakeshop sounds like a place where they actually make their cakes and you can have your custom one ordered. flowershop would be a place to order custom flower arrangements, while flowerstore sounds like more of a big slection of products available nationwide to deliver. hope this helps.

if you selling domains that would definitely be store unless you provide also full webdesign services and offer packages of the domain name/hosting/the site/full collateral/graphic design/ etc basically do something creative for your customer.

 

[Name Trader]

I decided to go with Store. I also decided none of my current domains were good enough. So bought a domain in the aftermarket. Watch out for developments.

@Zmonsterdomains - I'm not familiar with the stats you are quoting, but if it is quoting new registrations, it could be because there were more 'shop' domains available for registration, which would make 'store' more popular

 

[tomcarl]

I'd go with Shop. To shop is the act of shopping as well as a location to buy goods. When I think 'store' I think brick-and-mortar business, not e-commerce.