oddsod - 1:56 pm on Aug 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

check .com first, use it if it's available, lose something to your competition if you have the same root name but not the .com address.

Maybe. Sometimes. But not always.

I'm not surprised that I can't find the NSPCC at dot com. In fact, I didn't even look there originally. As it's a charity I naturally looked at the org BUT they aren't there either!

Not only did they completely ignore registering the dot com but they even ignored the .org in favour of .org.uk. Does anyone have trouble finding the NSPCC site? Maybe. But considering that you can go to Google and get the answer in 0.0034 seconds it's not even worth trying various TLDs anymore! Just Google or Yahoo it. And most people who want to get to the NSPCC know they can do that.

Is the guy who owns the parked dot com making any money? Possibly. Is the NSPCC losing large amounts of traffic because people can't find them? I hardly think so.