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📣 xbidule

Confused – Whats the best extension after .com?


Hi all,

I am working on a peer to peer services marketplace (not IT specific).

If I cant get .com name what's the next best extension and why? I am sure many of you went through this. Hoping someone can share their experience / advice. Thanks!

These extensions are available: .net .io .co And the country specific extensions like .com.au .us etc

  👤 bluehorseray Accepted Answer ✓
Not sure if there's more meaning behind the extensions than I'm aware of, but I've always liked ".io". It's clean and short, used by a lot of "tech" websites I've seen.

Or .org lol

👤 JacobAldridge
I'm still waiting for the business use case that recommends .rodeo

If you want to be global, avoid most country-specific domains, but there are a few exceptions that seem to have achieved traction - .io is tech-trendy, .tv was big for a while, and some can fit into the branding in a way like .us .in and the forthcoming .au (gold.au will be a very nice domain for whoever it sitting on gold.com.au right now).

There's also the potential to jazz up your name / brand / domain. I'm working with one company on a product right now, and while they had a cool 5-letter name for it they've actually re-named the whole thing to "Meet12345" because meet12345.com was available and 12345 certainly wasn't. Think getdropbox.com as an older, temporary example of this as well.

👤 version_five
Take .app or something that corresponds to your service (.io, .ai, etc, just go to namecheap and then browse through all the extensions).

Then, say you make foobar.app, also buy foobarapp.com so you can use both.