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We have a small business that we run from home. We etch custom designs and logos into all kinds of drinking glasses. We have been running our business for over 3 years now thru an online Venue called Etsy. Over the three years we have seen a lot of changes on Etsy and its time we stop counting on only one source for our income for our business, in today's times you just never know when a big company will close its doors or get shut down.
Over the last few weeks I have been looking at domain names for our business. Everything I want is already taken with the .com.
From what I remember reading and from what little bit I think i might know, it used to be you need to have a .com name if you want to be successful online (Maybe I'm wrong and I am talking 5 to 10 years ago). Now it seems there is every domain extension one can think of.
Here is my questions:
If we are in the U.S. and we run a business that only sales and operates in the U.S., would it be okay for me to pick a domain name with a .US extension ?
Also if I build the site right, keeping SEO in my thoughts and plans the whole time and if I am able to drive traffic, will a .us domain get ranked with google and all the others or will the sites that have the .com still over ride all the other domain extension, forcing them to fall back to pages that are never even viewed from a simple search.
I am sorry this post got a little long, THANK YOU in advance for any info, tips or advice I hope to get from this post.
Rob
Over the last few weeks I have been looking at domain names for our business. Everything I want is already taken with the .com.
From what I remember reading and from what little bit I think i might know, it used to be you need to have a .com name if you want to be successful online (Maybe I'm wrong and I am talking 5 to 10 years ago). Now it seems there is every domain extension one can think of.
Here is my questions:
If we are in the U.S. and we run a business that only sales and operates in the U.S., would it be okay for me to pick a domain name with a .US extension ?
Also if I build the site right, keeping SEO in my thoughts and plans the whole time and if I am able to drive traffic, will a .us domain get ranked with google and all the others or will the sites that have the .com still over ride all the other domain extension, forcing them to fall back to pages that are never even viewed from a simple search.
I am sorry this post got a little long, THANK YOU in advance for any info, tips or advice I hope to get from this post.
Rob