.US comes in a distant 10th place amongst ccTLDs

dgridley · 08-01-2009, 01:41 PM

According to an article (Get Creative With Your Domain Name) on the SmashingMagazine website, in terms of overall domain name base for the 1st quarter of 2009, .US ranks a distant 10th place with .CN coming in first, followed closely, in second, by .de and, surprisgly, .uk in third.

Are you still stuck in the .com rut or are you willing to get creative with your domains and take a chance on a gTLD or ccTLD?

Check out the full article here:

Get Creative With Your Domain Name | How-To | Smashing Magazine

WebForging · 08-01-2009, 03:38 PM

There's a reason it is a dot com 'rut'... it is by far the most well-traveled road!

As I wrote in WebForging (WebForging - A practical guide to the art of forging your web presence), a client purchased a one-word domain name, a "last name" that happened to be the same as that of a major university.

They got 25,000 visitors a month who were looking for the University site - indeed, who's last page view was deep in the college's website - yet when they went to go to the home page they entered "dot com" instead of "dot edu"!

I do like some of the applications of the "dot US" extension. For example, AppliedLeadership.US (APPLIED LEADERSHIP - Motivational Speaker, Leadership Keynote Speaker, Military Leader) is very fitting for a retired US Army General who speaks on leadership and motivation in America.

Regards,
Keith

dgridley · 08-01-2009, 03:50 PM

I also like the idea of incorporating the .us into the site slogan, such as "When you think of XYZ company, think of .US!" Makes it a bit more memorable IMO.