Thread: .com vs .info

Not only was it a good move, it was a very important and valuable one.

There are several threads discussing this if you want to search for some of them, but here are a few brief pointers to the reasons for this:

• The .com extension is the standard. If people enter your site name manually they will most often enter the .com without even thinking about it, sending them to another site or a 404 error.
  
  
• If you have the .info and someone else has the .com, as a result of the above point, you will lose many potential visitors to the .com site and if their site is on your same topic you may well lose a customer.
  
  
• A .info extension is primarily associated with informational sites, not sites that contain products or even advertisement. Furthermore, it is not often used, certainly not compared to the .com. People will have a hard time remembering your name with that extension and may just not find you when they try other extensions.

There are some uses for a .info however and it would be OK for them. I use one for the site in my signature. It is for a non-profit site and only contains public and membership information for the Douglas County, Minnesota, Master Gardeners. The name has only four letters which are well known as an acronym for the organization so works well—we really wanted that acronym so we took the .info. If the .com had been available we would have taken it.

Definitely a wise move on your part, dotCOM is still "king" when it comes to domain names. If you have already established a site with the .info make sure that you forward the .info to the .com, so you wont lose any of your existing site visitors after you start using the .com.

.com is shorter too. The less keystrokes needed the better. Less is more and the the phrase "dot com" has become synonymous with the web at any rate.

The only time .info would be useful: [link removed]

Moderator—LOL, I think. Your suggestion was a good example but I doubt if you tried it out to see if anyone actually used that domain, DWG. It was used as a link farm for porn, so I deleted it.

Here is a substitute that shows the same idea (it is similar and used but not inappropriate): find.info

Moving .info to .com is a good idea unless the .info site was getting tons of traffic.

i also like .com than .info it is not bad....

Moderator—LOL, I think. Your suggestion was a good example but I doubt if you tried it out to see if anyone actually used that domain, DWG. It was used as a link farm for porn, so I deleted it.

Thanks - I should just check next time..

Speaking from experience, I lost a LOT of traffic from people trying a .com name instead of my .net name at the time. I'd tell friends about it or share it online, and so many people got "lost" getting on the site, so I'm sure a lot of others out there were too. That's why when I made the site I have now, I made sure to come up with a name that a .com domain was available for

according to me , .com is domain extension .

.com is king - it's just synonymous with website addresses

.info has been used by a lot of spammers and snake oil marketers unfortunately, and the big G has frowned on them - but of course that could change at the flip of a coin, or an update of a search algorithm...