.co vs .com

[vijayvasu]

hello Mozzers.

question - does it make a big difference between having a .co vs a .com .

I am tryign to get a URL, with the actual keywords in the URL . for example blackboots.com/

I see that the .com is taken but the .co is available, is it a good idea to buy it?

also what about hyphens in urls - do they hurt or help if you actually have the keywords in the url.

thanks much - you rock,

V

[EGOL]

If you register blackboots.co and make it a huge success and I own blackboots.com... then I am going to enjoy a nice amount of your traffic.

If I felt that I could make a significant site for "black boots"... I would be willing to pay a good price for blackboots.com.  If I could not afford to buy it I would create a site on another .com domain.

[vijayvasu]

so inessense i shuld not buy the .co domain and try some other closely related keyword and get a .com correct.

Thank you so much by the way.

I appreciate it.

[donford]

Also in regards to your hyphen question. For the same reasons you should try and get the actual non-hyphenated name. For example my company owns rubberstore.com but there is also a rubber-store.com which was out before us and sell radically different products. Our first traffic started arriving quickly for people searching for their product types.

Now if you type rubber-store in Google you'll find our website first and not theirs.

Hope this helps