By artarmon42 | 1 Comment
Last updated: Sunday, March 18, 2007

There are alot of opinions on the best TLD (Top Level Domain name) to use when registering domain names. Alot of people say .COM’s are best, although there seems to be an increasing minority that says TLDs don’t matter so why not use the much cheaper .INFO domains.

After researching into this subject, what I learnt is this:

• If you have to tell people your domain name (e.g. what your email address is), then .COM is definitely the best. Everyone knows what .COM is.
• If you’re using SEO (Seeach Engine Optimization) to get listed on search engines, it doesn’t matter what TLD you use. It has been suggested that .ORG and .EDU domains seem to get better quality scores and thus should be listed higher up in search results.
• Especially if you’re doing direct advertising (e.g. Google Adwords) and don’t expect alot of word-of-mouth marketing, then it definitely doesn’t matter what TLD you use (and you should use the cheapest TLD that fits with your marketing campaign).

As such, I’m big proponent of buying .INFO domains. I figure they’re cheap, they can be SEO just fine, and as long as I have a .COM (or in this case a .NET) email address to tell people, I’m good to go!

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