Have you ever wondered what these domain extensions mean? .com , .net , .org, .biz , .info, .mobi, .us, .co.uk, .in, .jp, .kr, .asia, .travel …………. the list goes on..
.com is still considered as the much desired domain extension, is one of the generic top level domain name (TLD). You can read about the top level domain names on an article published by ICANN at Top-Level Domains (gTLDs).
When you are planning to buy a domain name, you need to have some idea about the extensions and the meanings. The above said link will help you fairly in that respect.
Follow these when your website is for the global audience.
My advices are, when you have decided on a name, try the .com extension first. If its available, do not hesitate to register. If .com isn’t available then you can consider other alternatives.
.org is generally for a non profit organization, if yours is not one in that category, do not try .org.
.net is the next alternative to .com which you can consider.
If you plan to start a website for the local audience, try a country code top level domain. Say .in is a country level top level domain for India, where as .uk is the ccTLD of UK.
There are restrictions on registering few ccTLDs like .kr which is for Korea, you need to be a national from Korea to register these domain extensions.
All the domain name extensions do not have same registration fee, it starts from few cents for .info and goes a few hundred USD for ccTLD !
SEO and TLD
In short if you have a .in TLD, your website may appear better in search results in Indian context and a .co.uk will appear better in search queries in UK as the context.
[…] The cost – A .info domain you can get for as low as 0.99$ at Godaddy.com and .com domain starts at around 8$. If you would like to read what are these .info and .com, read my earlier post – whats in a domain name extension. […]