Since I launched this site about a week ago I have had many ideas for posts and this one just came to me as a result of the post earlier in the week about how much it would cost to have all of the extensions. www.GoDaddy.com has 58 extensions available depending on where you live so what to choose after the .com is gone.

I could kick myself (but not too hard) because I never registered my name as a .com.  I do own brianfreed.net, brianfreed.me and brianfreed.tel and I think that will be it for now.  I have designed a few web sites in the past few years for square dance callers and in all but one instance I was able to get the .com for them.  The one I could not was registered as a .ws.  I wasn’t too sure if people would remember this web site but if you do a search for Mike Driscoll on Google it comes up in the top 5.  I have CallerBrian.com tucked away for when I want to launch my Square Dance Caller site.

If you can’t get the .com in your name then let’s look at what’s available.  I am beginning to see some value in the .me extension.  It’s personal.  Bruce Marler believes in this extension so much he launched a company that revolves around it.  Chef Patrick has written on his blog about the .us extension.  I say if you have a site that deals in the media then look for the .fm or .tv extension.  If you try to match your sites content with the right extension I think people will find your site.  Now if I can only get ICANN to let me register a .sd extension for square dancing but that’s for another time.

Good luck with your search and if all else fails, find the person or company that owns the domain you want and make them an offer or keep looking at those drop lists.  You never know what you’ll find on those.  That’s how I got Industry News Journal.

Brian

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