Tips Choosing Domain Name, Does it have To Be .Com?
Hello Misterard friends, this time we will review a little about tips choosing domain. If you are currently planning to create a website for an online business or maybe personal branding, choosing the right website name can help your brand name to be known more.
Choosing a domain name is indeed easy and difficult, the domain name must represent the brand image that you will build in the online world, this is where netizens will get to know your brand. The easier the website name is remembered, the easier it will be for people to find your business on the internet.
Do Domain Names Have to be .COM?
According to Alexa ranking, 8 of the top 10 websites in the world use .COM domains. Based on this, your website can become popular by using a .COM TLD, for those who don’t know about domains, see our article “KNOWN DOMAIN AND TYPES.”)
According to VeriSign, as a domain name registration service provider and global internet infrastructure, the growth of .COM domains on December 31, 2018 amounted to around 139 million registrants. This means that almost all websites around the world use a .COM TLD, so choosing a .COM domain is the right choice for now. If you already have a name for your website, you can register your domain name immediately via this link.
Reasons to Use .COM Domains
If we flashback to the early days of the Internet, at that time website addresses only used a series of numbers as IP addresses and this was very difficult for users to find our website.
Until finally, around the 1980s, 3 main domain extensions were used, namely .COM, .NET and .ORG with the aim of making it easier to address a website. until now the .COM domain is the most popular domain.
These are some of the reasons why .COM domains are in high demand,
1. Easy to remember, this name is easy to remember and has been embedded in the heads of many ordinary people, they assume that a website address usually ends with .COM.
2. Popular Names, .COM domains are becoming very popular from time to time, as evidenced by the increasing number of registrants using the .COM extension. Usually people prefer to get a .COM address, if the domain you are looking for is already registered by someone else, then another alternative is a domain with a .NET extension, a .NET domain has popularity under .COM and is easier to remember too.
3. SEO friendly, the .COM domain is universal, therefore this domain is more SEO friendly when compared to other domains. In contrast to domains with .us or .id extensions, within the scope of search engines such as Google, .id or .us extension domains are more friendly for targeting local or specific areas.
4. Cheaper, the price for .COM domains is also relatively cheaper, when compared to its performance for a domain price of 115 thousand rupiah for a year is still relatively cheap. You can order a cheap domain through this link.
5. Domain that describes your business. COM stands for “Commercial”, with this extension your domain will look more official and easy to remember.
From the explanation above, we hope you will understand better that getting a .COM domain can further improve your business performance in the online world.
Then, is it necessary to take a domain name with another extension?
If you have more capital, you can also take a domain with a .NET, .ORG or other extension that can later be used as a web redirect.
