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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.

Markul · 08-02-2012, 01:39 PM

Yea right forum. Personally I wouldn't bother with anything but .com or maybe .org

Unless I was building a brand

datingfactory.xxx · 08-02-2012, 10:52 PM

My best performing sexdatingsite is a two letter .nu domain!
kk.nu
I think that "two letter.anyTLD´s" are so easy to remember that they will perform good!

Should work out with "exelent.domainname.anytld" also, so there are lots of great unregistered domains still!

wtwsl · 08-08-2012, 02:25 AM

Lol. Look how popular kat.ph is!

Yo Adrian · 08-13-2012, 02:15 PM

.com is still king, net and org are good alternatives.. I personally ignore the rest. Other tld's get popular, but if you check the serps of any competitive phrase you won't find much variety.

Kostly · 08-13-2012, 03:53 PM

I have no experience with anything but .com's so I will offer my opinion as if it matters... LOL

08-02-2012, 09:10 AM	#1
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..

08-02-2012, 10:52 PM	#3
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08-13-2012, 02:15 PM	#5
Yo Adrian Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 6,326	.com is still king, net and org are good alternatives.. I personally ignore the rest. Other tld's get popular, but if you check the serps of any competitive phrase you won't find much variety. __________________ Adult SEO Partners - Full service Adult SEO Agency serving some of the biggest names in the industry.

08-13-2012, 03:53 PM	#6
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08-02-2012, 01:39 PM	#2
Markul Likes Pie Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The land that liberated porn Posts: 12,402	Yea right forum. Personally I wouldn't bother with anything but .com or maybe .org Unless I was building a brand

08-08-2012, 02:25 AM	#4
wtwsl Registered User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 10	Lol. Look how popular kat.ph is!