.com vs .net vs .org: When to Use Each?

There's often confusion about when to choose between .com, .net, and .org.
What criteria do you use to decide which one fits your brand or project best?

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  • alentoalento Hosting ProviderOGServices Provider

    .com for my business website, or .org if the website is for a non-profit venture.
    .net for the services that my business runs.

    Generally ... of course sometimes this does not always work out.

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  • edited September 9

    Generally, only .com has any value in a portfolio (IMHO). I sometimes use other TLDs such as .net, .co.uk as protective registrations and forward these to the .com so someone else can't steal my traffic.

    BrandShelter takes care of my business related stuff with DPML so it's just a booteg version of this sans trademark.

    I sometimes use TLDs such as .host or .it depending on the project.

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  • I use amadex.com as my web, and amadex.net for nameservers.

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  • edited September 9

    For my email aliases, I have a random .com that I use to decrease the likelihood of a website rejecting the address. But for hosting websites, I just get what's available for the use case.

  • We use .com for website and .dev for documentation etc.
    From time to time, someone else registers .net or .org or .cn and tries to sell to us, but we are too broke for these.

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  • .com for everything, then register the same domain with every other extensions so you feel good that no one can steal your brand. Then register all similar/typo names in the same manner. Once you are broke, get a free server from LES giveways and use it with the IP address only :p

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  • .com = commercial / commerce
    .net = network / networking / computing
    .org = organization (usually non-profit)
    .info = information

    There are many other TLDs out there to choose from, like .shop .io .party .win .sex .wtf and many others. Nowadays imagination and scalpers could be the limits.

  • .net if .com is not available

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  • @alento said:
    .com for my business website, or .org if the website is for a non-profit venture.
    .net for the services that my business runs.

    Generally ... of course sometimes this does not always work out.

    I appreciate the clarity, alento! Thanks!

  • @techdragon said:
    Generally, only .com has any value in a portfolio (IMHO). I sometimes use other TLDs such as .net, .co.uk as protective registrations and forward these to the .com so someone else can't steal my traffic.

    BrandShelter takes care of my business related stuff with DPML so it's just a booteg version of this sans trademark.

    I sometimes use TLDs such as .host or .it depending on the project.

    Thanks for sharing your expertise, techdragon!

  • @Amadex said:
    I use amadex.com as my web, and amadex.net for nameservers.

    Cool! Thanks for sharing, Amadex!

  • @SocksAreComfortable said:
    For my email aliases, I have a random .com that I use to decrease the likelihood of a website rejecting the address. But for hosting websites, I just get what's available for the use case.

    Makes sense SocksAreComfortable! Thanks for sharing!

  • @yoursunny said:
    We use .com for website and .dev for documentation etc.
    From time to time, someone else registers .net or .org or .cn and tries to sell to us, but we are too broke for these.

    Thanks, yoursunny! Which option is more expensive, and which one is cheaper?

  • @DediRock said:

    @yoursunny said:
    We use .com for website and .dev for documentation etc.
    From time to time, someone else registers .net or .org or .cn and tries to sell to us, but we are too broke for these.

    Thanks, yoursunny! Which option is more expensive, and which one is cheaper?

    During the last renewal performed in 2024-Aug, our .com domain costed $9.49 and our .dev domain costed $10.16.
    Generally, we transfer the domain to a different registrar every year, to take advantage of lower pricing.
    However, since the private by design llc incident, we are now avoiding certain registrars with inadequate systems, to avoid headaches.

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  • edited October 6

    @techdragon said: I sometimes use other TLDs such as .net, .co.uk as protective registrations and forward these to the .com so someone else can't steal my traffic.

    If it's a real business you can use whatever TLD you'd like. Then just trademark the brand name and for the select categories in the region you operate such as euipo for EU.

    If the person who bought the .com 20+ years ago but kept it inactive starts to use it, or if someone registers one of the 1000+ other TLD they're not allowed to offer those X category services under the same brand name as you to the EU region basically making their domain name useless.

    Trademark in the EU is relatively cheap. I believe it's 750 or 950 EUR for 10 year protection for 2 categories.

    For web hosting and most other things related it would be Nice Classification 42

    Of course you don't actually need a trademark but it does make it a hell of a lot cheaper to negotiate buying that .com domain, or do takedowns with fiverr expert supreme lawyer.

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