.uk.com domain names -- yes or no

[NickFitz]

billypilgrim.co.uk is available. best register it quickly tho...

billy-pilgrim.com is also available. If you can live with the hyphen that might be a viable option. Bear in mind that most people will probably arrive via a link, whether from an email, another site, or a search engine, so the risk of people mistyping it without the hyphen might not be much of a problem.

[RichardCranium]

BILLYPILGRIM.COM

billypilgrim.co.uk is available. best register it quickly tho...

billy-pilgrim.com is also available.

Now I'm waiting for...

'Billy Pilgrim' was just an example based on my login. My real domain will be something different.

[Platypus]

billy-pilgrim.com is also available. If you can live with the hyphen that might be a viable option. Bear in mind that most people will probably arrive via a link, whether from an email, another site, or a search engine, so the risk of people mistyping it without the hyphen might not be much of a problem.

Humm, nowadays I prefer domain names without hyphens that are easy to spell (which makes them easily memorable) such as "billy pilgrim all one word". With a domain extension of .com (preferably) or .co.uk (at a push).

This comes from bitter experience: as owner of various domain names, the "clever" ones such as "myco-ltd.com" are a PITA because people NEVER remember them correctly. Whereas stuff like "moon pig" is dead easy to remember.

[Lumiere]

billygrim.co.uk /.com is available and has fewer characters to type ..

[RichardCranium]

Non-standard domains look cheap.

Except contractorUK.com, of course.

[Billy Pilgrim]

Now I'm waiting for...

I honestly couldn't bring myself to do it after all those replies

[ladymuck]

I have myco.co.uk on automatic forward to myco.com, but never use the co.uk in anything. I just bought it so no-one else can have it. Personally don't see any particular benefit in having a co.uk domain, it's too faffy for my liking.

[gadgetman]

I own <myco>.com but as my company is about to close I don't have much use for it.

However for personal use I'd have thought most people would want their domain to be <your surname>.com so they could accept email to anything@<your surname>.com.

Obviously some surnames are very common so you may have to find a different suffix. I ended up with <gadgetman>.net.