[wheedwacker]

If you want a professional web design site, and the .com version is taken, is it ok to use .us or something? or should it just be .com

[adpitch]

It doesn't matter as much - if the site itself has good content/portfolio and if you properly propagate the domain in SE.

[SeanMedia]

for ease of use get a .com

if you tell someone that its whatever.us, they only tend to remember the whatever part and stick .com on the end. trust me, its gonna be hard enough getting people to the site, without having that little hurdle trip them at the end.

i know from experience - my website is seanmedia.co.uk and everyone i tell verbally goes to seanmedia.com which is owned by some tool who claims to be a designer too.

[Limbo]

where are you based?

[Blue Ire]

If you can't have the .com, don't bother.

[Limbo]

Originally Posted by Blue Ire

If you can't have the .com, don't bother.

thats bullshit advice.

If it's a Search Engine concern then a local domain will generally rank better.

e.g. in google.co.uk a .uk domain will get preferential treatment over the same content on a .com domain.

Local search is big.

If you customers are world wide, then a non specific TLD like a .com or .net address will fare better, if your market is local then a country specific domain is going to work out cheaper and just as, if not more, effective.

[wheedwacker]

I'm US based

[Limbo]

where? (blood from stone)