Name-Forum.com OR NameForum.net?

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  1. Venom

    Venom Adept

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    Which would you rather use?

    Name-Forum.com

    OR

    NameForum.net

    The "name" can be changed to anything else. Just using it as an example.
     
  2. Abomination

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    Without the hyphen, if that is possible.

    My preference at least, especially when telling the name to someone in person and not in an email/post.
     
  3. ArnyVee

    ArnyVee Regular Member

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    I've thought about this so much before. I've had great names that are taken as far as the .com (isn't that almost always the case?) and I've decided to go with a new name where I could do a non-hyphenated .com name instead of the .net

    It's really tough when you go with a .net because everyone assumes that your site is a .com and could potentially visit another site instead of yours.
     
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    ogdoad Newcomer

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    I agree with the above post, have you thought about any other name combinations? Although that's not to say .net is useless; there are plenty of very successful .net's!
     
  5. Howard

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    I would just think of a new name, that was what i had to do, and the name i came up with was better than the one i first thought of :D
     
  6. vlauria

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    agreed with ArnyVee to get the .com and non hyphenated.

    it could even be TheNameForums.com
     
  7. Brandon

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    This is exactly why I went with the name-forums.com rather then a .org, .net or anything else.

    I don't normally care for domains with #'s or -'s in them but I went with the hyphen for my newest forum. I know most my traffic with be from search engines (by the time all is said & done) and they don't care if it has a hyphen or not. :)

    I did consider adding another word like TheForumName.com but I wanted to try and keep it as short as possible, so I passed those up.
     
  8. jen

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    both would get you listed, but if you want to compare them internally, then it will be decided by traffic and backlinks.
     

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