Reply to: Top Level Domains

[ladymuck]

what about

Compuglobalhypermeganet?

Nice and catchy and easy to spell, ticks all the boxes for me

[Addanc]

GM == Chapter 11?

[PorkPie]

I've thought vectraman.com would be worth millions

[VectraMan]

I've got a .com and .co.uk that I registered many years ago. I've always vaguely hoped some multinational would want the .com and offer me piles of cash for it, but it hasn't happened yet.

[Jog On]

.co.uk (assuming you are in the UK of course) and .eu. All the ltd.uk are not really necessary, they are not as useful as the others.

And .com should be restricted to global multinationals, and I assume you are not one of those.

I'm not a global multinational but I do sell stuff to people all over the world around the clock - hence the .com extension for just about all of my sites.

[Jog On]

I have a .net for my Ltd co site, all my other sites are .com and I get all the major other ones for the same name and redirect them to the main one.

Godaddy are good for that

[PorkPie]

.co.uk (assuming you are in the UK of course) and .eu. All the ltd.uk are not really necessary, they are not as useful as the others.

And .com should be restricted to global multinationals, and I assume you are not one of those.

Says who?

[puterDude]

And .com should be restricted to global multinationals, and I assume you are not one of those.

There is, and should be, no restriction whatsoever with .COM. If you want it (and most people do) get it. It is a non-geographic generic TLD and often the most desirable.

Also .ltd.uk are not very desirable, and they can only be registered by a UK Limited company with the same name, so generally speaking - there is no rush to get them - and most companies don't.

Sam

[fzbucks]

I have .com for email and the main site and also own .co.uk and .eu which are set to forward to .com. Can't be bothered with any of the others at the moment. Might consider .ltd.uk - I wish it was possible to just have .uk.

Am currently trying to think up a new company name (my current one is tres lame) and it's darn hard work trying to (a) think up a decent name and (b) think up a decent name where the domain name hasn't been registered.

Grrr...

what about

Compuglobalhypermeganet?

[ladymuck]

I have .com for email and the main site and also own .co.uk and .eu which are set to forward to .com. Can't be bothered with any of the others at the moment. Might consider .ltd.uk - I wish it was possible to just have .uk.

Am currently trying to think up a new company name (my current one is tres lame) and it's darn hard work trying to (a) think up a decent name and (b) think up a decent name where the domain name hasn't been registered.

Grrr...

[Clippy]

Yep, the 3 to go for are:

.com
.co.uk
.net

[chef]

I own
tarpon.co.uk
tarpon.com
tarpon.biz

any others I should get?

FYI

tarpon.com and .co.uk point to different sites..

[chef]

.co.uk
.com

also bought .eu but not really worth it other than i have nearly a full set

mail and website hosted with hostgator

[youwhut]

I usually snap up .net and .org - I don't like people parking on my name.

I register all .co.uk with UKReg.com a.k.a. Fasthosts. Any gTLDs with 1cheapdomains.com. Currently hosting with pipeten.com on a Windows Multihost option with no complaints. Fasthosts are good too. I have a dedicated option with UKFast.net - one of the cheapest solutions when I researched it about 18 months ago.

[ElectricChair]

What TLD are worth owning with respect to a limited company?

.co.uk ?
.com ?
.biz ?

What companies do you use to host your Email accounts?

I own
tarpon.co.uk
tarpon.com
tarpon.biz

any others I should get?