When .com is taken what would you settle for: .net, my+keyword.com or cctld?

[Infoproliferati]

When .com is unavailable what would you settle for: .net, my+keyword.com or cctld? And please give reasons why.

Also if there is more than one keyword, what criteria do you use to determine when to reg the hyphenated .com?

[James Jean]

It completely depends on the name, the industry etc. For instance... if CallMe.com is taken- this is a situation where Call.me hack would make a great buy. Hacks work well in certain situation but not other same with .org and .net. For multiple keywords- it would have to be a strong combination of at least 5k a month searches. Plus you have to tailor it to countries that do not mind the dash like Germany (.de) etc. Hyphanated .coms do well with strong keywords.

[hotspur]

.CO ...provided that it is not a trademarked word/words. It really depends on the purpose; if it is business probably the standard 'i' , 'e', 'blog', etc..

Hyphenation?? hmm words like ice-cream ? :p just kidding

[ngconcepts]

Let me expand on this question and add another question. Lets say you are interested in a domain name and your plan was to use it as a mini-site with adsense for steady income. The .COM is already taken and pointed to a parked page on sedo or something. If you got the .NET name and developed mini-site with adsense ads, would you have chance of being P1 on google? This is assuming there is 5000+ exact monthly searches for the keyword phrase & low competition? Wouldn't your mini-site .NET probably have better chance of being indexed better than the Parked .COM?