I'm not really a webmaster but I'm setting up a web site for a local college cycling team. I'm not sure if I should go with a .com or .org domain name. It's not a commercial entity and it's not an officially registered non-profit organization either. However, it is a non-profit club. Any suggestions which way I should go?
kevinpate
10:29 pm on Aug 13, 2005 (gmt 0)
domain names being relatively inexpensive, nab both the .com and the .org, then have one pointed at the other.
There's more than one .org domain out there where someone is making other use of an 'unneeded' .com name typein traffic.
[edited by: kevinpate at 10:31 pm (utc) on Aug. 13, 2005]
j4mes
10:29 pm on Aug 13, 2005 (gmt 0)
It's really entirely up to you, but I always think .com rolls off the tongue quite nicely :-)
runner
4:25 am on Aug 14, 2005 (gmt 0)
OK... I'll get both
luckychucky
12:39 am on Aug 15, 2005 (gmt 0)
Whichever you use, it's wise to get both neatly tied up (even if one domain will only sit in cold storage, unused) so no impostor-squatter can divert your traffic to his samename.com or .org site. A stitch in time spares you the colossal headache of netsurfers confusing you for some other entity, and a potential fortune in legal bills to get it stopped. Take it from one who knows by experience.
