AntiSpam.com vs AntiSp.am for big brand?

moltar

moltar

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** Note: not the actual domain, just a similar example. **

I'm planning on building a legit business selling physical product online with this name. I want to build a "big brand" type of business. Huge potential here.

Most of the traffic to start with will be PPC, but I do also want to do SEO as well later on, once I find good keywords thru PPC.

Both domains are taken. The domain itself is basically the product name, which consists of two words. Although it is not a household name.

The .com is registered since 2002. It is not in use and is parked with "for sale" sign. But nobody replies to my inquiries for 2 weeks already. I'd imagine the price would be somewhere in 5-10k range.

The .am is registered for a year. There is some lame blog on it. The owner replied with interest to sell within 10 minutes of my inquiry, but when I produced an offer he politely declined. I think if I go higher, he'll probably sell it. Probably can secure it under 1k.

The question: is .am too shitty for this?

There is also potential to go plural here. But .com is also taken, and also not in use. And the ccTLD is .ms, and the name is NOT taken yet.

Thanks!
 


I would never, never, never use any extension other than .com for a US-based business.

I'd use .ca/.co.uk/.com.au if i'm serving clients in that location. But for US, .com or find another name.

You say that the domain itself is basically the product name. It's rare for an e-commerce company to only sell one product as it grows. You may want to consider a different brand name for your company.
 
Thanks, that is kinda my take on that too. I guess I'm looking for "permission" here to use something other than .com. But in reality I know deep down that it is a bad idea.

To clarify the name is a category of products. Not exactly the name. It's like "printer", or "laptop". It is not a brand name.
 
moltar said:
Thanks, that is kinda my take on that too. I guess I'm looking for "permission" here to use something other than .com. But in reality I know deep down that it is a bad idea.

To clarify the name is a category of products. Not exactly the name. It's like "printer", or "laptop". It is not a brand name.
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Gotcha!

I go back and forth on whether to use keywords in my company name or just a nice brand name. Keywords definitely give you a boost in terms of SEO in the early stages of your company. I think longterm a brand name is better because it differentiates yourself from your competition and your customers perceive your as something more than just "printerdepot.com".

Just my 2c!
 
The dot com, and it's not even close. In your thread title example I'd pay exponentially more for the .com than the .am
 
don't be swayed away by instagr.am and the like examples, in the end they all had to wisen up and buy the .com to represent big brands
 
I used to think those kind of .tld's were really cool until you see a brand like bit.ly switch to bitly.com (it being Libya too).

I like the more fun .tld's for url shorteners not brand names now. My favorite being .cm's, even though they're the priciest.
 
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