1) .com are not available. Only .net are available.
Both .com are registerted by some good/big companies, however, they are using it as redirection, and these names are main keyword/phrase (keyphrase1.net & keyphrase2.net and no hypens in between).
Any suggestions? Do you guys think, I should still jump in for .net?
I am more concerned about humans. Cuz, most people by default generally assume, it is somename.com and not .net :( . This is my thinking, am I wrong?
Not IMO, so far as humans are concerned, .nets are only slightly less worthless than .orgs.
Depends on the primary source of the traffic. If you advertise on TV , radio, print and on the phone then a .com along with a non-hyphenated domain is appropriate. If you are marketing primarily online then anything goes pretty much. I doubt Joe Average only clicks on .coms in the serps.
If they are, and you have the ".net", your users may accidentally go to your competitors site because the ".net" did not stick in their minds.
You may accidentally drive traffic to you competition!
I have had tons of my competitor's traffic sent my way because I have the generic .com, and they are pumping big bucks advertising a .net or .cc.
I figured this out after receiving an unusually large amount of emails complaining that my site did not contain the items "advertised in the magazine ad". The problem was that my competitor - not me - had placed the ads!
