Why are .com worth so much VS .net .org (For generic domains)

[Jackkicker]

We all know that exact keyword match domains or generic domains can help in SEO.

I'm looking to buy a 2 words generic domain for that reason. It's not a brandable domain since it's made from 2 common words like "digitalradios" for example.

The .net is evaluated at $4,000 while the .com is evaluated at $275,000! Google often says that they don't care if the domain is a .com or .net so the SEO boost for exact keyword match should be equal for both versions.

So is the huge price difference only caused by the fact that the .com receives direct type in traffic and also by the fact that .com is more respected than .net? I mean I understand that .com should be evaluated higher than .net but I can't see why there would be that much of a difference...

 

[fatter]

A big factor is not just typeins but 2 more instances where having the com is important ,if I am an enduser who spends thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars advertising my website I dont want to lose 20-40 percent of the traffic to the dotcom name which could cost me untold sales. Also the repeat users a lot of traffic could be lost if they dont save website in favorites trying to remmember an extension on top of a domain name wil also allow more traffic to the dotcom. I have had a few instances where websites even linked to my dotcom by mistake when they owned the net or org

 

[mhdoc]

I am happy to use key word domains with hyphens from any TLD for my small sites where I assume all my visitors will come via search. If I were building a large site with plans to build a brand and a large business with repeat customers I would want the dot com.

I think ease of remembering the domain for repeat customers would be worth paying a lot for.

 

[Sparhawke]

Many of the worlds computers from Google are specially set to automatically connect to .com even if you didn't type it into the URLbar.

Try it now, simply type in some random word that you normally wouldn't such as "sexinthecity" and first it will go to the country code first or simply bypass that and go straight for the .com

That brings in a huge amount of traffic for .com which is where the prices come from, and as large companies who were the early adopters like Ebay & Amazon wanted a commercial name and mass advertised them on an epic scale through stock market reports it got unprecedented advertising that .net or the rest simply cannot compete with