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allofthegold · 08-02-2012, 09:10 AM

Hi all. I'm curious about people's opinions on launching a site with a "lesser" domain extension: .cc, .io, .tc, .vg, and the like. There's tons of them. A lot of hip startups in the mainstream sector seem to be starting to move away from the ".com is king" attitude, although it's still fairly prevalent. Being new to the adult scene, I get the impression that you kind of need to stick with .com or at least .net or the more common extensions.

Why is this? It seems that the vast majority of traffic for adult sites is from various sources other than type-in urls. Is this correct? And if so would the TLD matter much? Is it just so hard to remember these things that they suck for domain names, or is it just sort of a mindless convention that you only get .coms?

In the past month I registered twat.cc and a two-letter common abbreviation .cm domain. I understand these probably aren't worth more than the price I paid for them, but it's not like no one buys these TLDs
and if you're going to buy random .cc domain names, I would think the 4 letter synonyms for genitalia would be snatched up as soon as anything.

On a related note, is there some list somewhere of which TLDs are porn friendly vs the ones that will eventually try to shut you down? I find this you often have to go digging to figure this out for a given tld.

Looking forward to any opinions on the subject.

EDIT: one more sort of off subject thing: I'm still new here, Is this the right forum for this type of question? It seems too businessy for the fucking around forum and too adulty for the the mainstream biz forum.

08-02-2012, 09:10 AM
allofthegold Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 4	Crappy TLDs Hi all. I'm curious about people's opinions on launching a site with a "lesser" domain extension: .cc, .io, .tc, .vg, and the like. There's tons of them. A lot of hip startups in the mainstream sector seem to be starting to move away from the ".com is king" attitude, although it's still fairly prevalent. Being new to the adult scene, I get the impression that you kind of need to stick with .com or at least .net or the more common extensions. Why is this? It seems that the vast majority of traffic for adult sites is from various sources other than type-in urls. Is this correct? And if so would the TLD matter much? Is it just so hard to remember these things that they suck for domain names, or is it just sort of a mindless convention that you only get .coms? In the past month I registered twat.cc and a two-letter common abbreviation .cm domain. I understand these probably aren't worth more than the price I paid for them, but it's not like no one buys these TLDs and if you're going to buy random .cc domain names, I would think the 4 letter synonyms for genitalia would be snatched up as soon as anything. On a related note, is there some list somewhere of which TLDs are porn friendly vs the ones that will eventually try to shut you down? I find this you often have to go digging to figure this out for a given tld. Looking forward to any opinions on the subject. EDIT: one more sort of off subject thing: I'm still new here, Is this the right forum for this type of question? It seems too businessy for the fucking around forum and too adulty for the the mainstream biz forum. __________________ ICQ#: 637974913 Last edited by allofthegold; 08-02-2012 at 09:12 AM..