.net is doing better than the .com?

[draggar]

I own two identical domains, one is a (adj)keyword.com and (adj)keyword.net and both are parked at Parked.

Both the .net and .com dropped last year and there was a bidding war for the .com but I picked up the .net for the drop fee.

A few months ago, I got an email offering to sell me the .com for $10 (1/5 the price it sold for in the auction) and I checked it's availability so I registered it.

I have them both at Parked and it's odd, not only does the .net have more traffic, it has a much higher % of clicks than the .com

Is it just me or is this odd? Both are optimized with the same keyword and the same template.

[Wire]

The .net probably used to be a developed site and has some remaining backlinks. Sometimes the net is far more valuable in such cases but its certainly rare - but a good example would be Authorize.net.

[draggar]

Normally I'd agree but both domains dropped the same day and were from the same registrar. I think the same person owned both of them.

But, you could still be correct, I didn't check the orig dates so both could have been used but then the .com dropped, the owner of the .net picked it up and redirected the .com to the .net.

[Wire]

I would just do a backlink search that should show you whats going on.

[DNP]

indeed, some more research needs to be done.

[draggar]

I did a Google search for the domains, 24 hits for the .net and 21 for the .com so it doesn't seem like backlinks.

Eh, I'm not to worried I just find it odd that the .net is doing better than the .com

[zabijaq]

Maybe previous owner just added .net to more search engines and there's allways some minor traffic, maybe that's why .net get more traffic.