US.COM good in terms of SEO ?

[Szise]

Hi, i want to know what you think about us.com domain name ? is us.com as good as any .com for ranking, SEO ?

 

[MJ]

Hi, i want to know what you think about us.com domain name ? is us.com as good as any .com for ranking, SEO ?

Hey Szise,

Welcome to namepros!

You have to realize that if you register cars.us.com, that "cars" is a subdomain of us.com. Be careful as if the owners of us.com ever sold out to anyone, potentially all subdomains would be lost - potentially. This has happened before in the past, however, since all registrars are starting to sell these subdomains, im sure there is *some* sort of written agreement in place, but I could be wrong.

There has been much debate to this in the SEO community. Some people view it as horrible, and others realize it is a subdomain. Many people think subdomains can rank just as high as .com's. So if you wanted to rank for cars, you don't necessarily have to get cars.us.com you could just make cars.YourNormalRegularDomain.com.

Realize though that it is a subdomain, and will not rank the same as cars.us, as .us is the united states.

Over all, its worth a shot, but be careful. Many great names are still available for a reason.

 

[Szise]

Thanks for the answer, "domain-i-want" is available only under .us.com, anything else is taken , from .nl to .cz or .si . I decided not to buy it. As you said, i can't trust the owners of us.com.

 

[DiggleNamer]

i think that they are a good option. i own three. you can get a generic for reg fee and rank it

 

[dazl4]

hi
I'm new here.so you guys are saying that we should not buy sub domains,they are not as good as .com or .net domain?

 

[DiggleNamer]

if you are new to domaining do not buy them. i think you can make money on them, but at the end of the day you are vulnerable to CentralNic

 

[DNNinja]

.us is good if developed and .com has the lead no matter what tld you use but .us is still good especially for U.S. business and products.

 

[FanCube]

Probably a bad investment. If I was running a seriously business I would never operate under a subdomain controlled by someone else. At most I would use such domains for mini-sites generating traffic to my main site.