Domain advice

.hotel .church . shop etc etc

[Kerr]

Can anyone give me some advice on these kind of domain names!

I have seen these prefix's available to register, are they actually available. For example would buy.hotel be the total domain address, sorry if I am being stupid but can someone shed some light on these please.

Cheers

[rfgdxm1]

Free advice: DON'T consider this any further, and move on to looking at real TLDs. The short version is these extensions won't be accessible to everyone, unlike say a .com or even a .ws.

[jo1ene]

Domains that are not .com .net or .org are useless. That goes for anything with dashes too. I've made that mistake before. People assume .com. Period. If you want fuzzywidget.com but it's not available, so you get fuzzywidgets.shop Be prepared for everyone end up at the .com version instead.

People just don't remember. I have trouble getting clients to go to their temporary site at a shared domain.

Like, clientname.host.com

They just won't NOT type www first. I say, "There's NO www." But they don't get it. I type [clientname.host.com...] in an email so all they have to do is click it. They add the www anyway! It's true!

[choster]

While I would not go as far as jo1ene-- I'm sure German users are accustomed to trying .de, for instance-- I would definitely avoid any non-sanctioned top-levels. Here are a couple of threads:

[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

[rfgdxm1]

>Domains that are not .com .net or .org are useless. That goes for anything with dashes too. I've made that mistake before. People assume .com. Period. If you want fuzzywidget.com but it's not available, so you get fuzzywidgets.shop Be prepared for everyone end up at the .com version instead.

Rubbish. The first flaw in your logic is that there is a WHOLE lot more on the web than e-commerce. Take a look at the Subject line of the OP here. Who on Earth selling fuzzy widgets would even be considering a .church name? Certainly a pure information site could make sensible use of a .info domain name. And, what about ccTLD domain names? If a site is say focused on Canadians, e-commerce or not, then a .ca makes a lot of sense.

[PatrickDeese]

As far as I can tell, .hotel, .shop, .church etc are not indexable by Google or any other search engine - and in fact only people with a special plug-in can see them.

That means (to say the least) that you will be *very* limited as to you audience.

I suppose if your site was only intended to be promoted to your church
congregation, and they installed the plug in - that would be fine.

I don't think you'd get much business from a .shop domain.

site:.com [google.com]

site:.church [google.com]

site:.shop [google.com]

site:.hotel [google.com]

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Notice that G recognizes the inbound links, but can't index them - just like if someone accidentally linked to a domain with .cmo instead of .com

site:.cmo [google.com]

[Kerr]

Thanks Guys for the Advice. So we dont recomend these for the future. I have snipped as a domain name, would this name be worth selling. Also the chinese prefix does any one have advice on them.

Thanks

[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 11:04 pm (utc) on May 21, 2004]
[edit reason] No specifics please [/edit]

[foodconsumer]

stop buying any non-main stream domain names such as .com. .net. .org.
You willl end up wasting money. I wasted some ealraedy