Why .com is the best domain name extension

Dot Com Domains Are The Most Popular Extension

The dot com domain name extension was one of the first Internet domain extensions to be used. Since its inception in 1985 .com has grown to be the largest top-level domain on the web. A top-level domain on the Internet is also referred to as a TLD. When dot coms first arrived on the seen it cost $100 to register. Then in 1997 the United States Department of Commerce took over control off the .com domain name extension.The prices for domain names have been falling ever since.

So why is the .com domain name extension the best? I can easily show you using this Century 21 example. You are the CEO of Century 21. Your employees say that you can register a .com or a .net domain name for your real estate business. You decide to register the .net. A third party registers the .com. After a period of time you learn that your potential customers are going to the Century 21 dot com website which is not related to you. First you might ask why this is. Well, many people will not put the name of the business into a search engine. They will put the name they are searching for in the address bar. With or without the .com put after the business name is the address bar a result website will show up if the customer presses enter. The result will usually be the website listed under the .com domain name extension. So now what can you do? The best route would be to contact the owner of the .com and try to work something out. The other would of been to register the dot com domain name in the first place. A .com is the best because most people will go there and you will receive the most traffic. Search engines will also almost always give .com preference to dot nets. They consider .com the industry standard domain name extension for all businesses.