.com or .co.uk?

[Daniël Bos]

As above really, I'm trying to build my own website.

Nothing fancy, basically all it has to do is state the services I offer and get people to be able to contact me easily. I want to put some signs up where I'm working as it's along a very busy road and next month will be around the corner along an eve busier road (hedgelaying) and thought a catchy web-adress is easier to remeber for the drive-by potential customer. I've registered both DanielDoes.com and .co.uk (I'm Daniel and I do stuff, sometimes...) but wich one do I use?

 

Is .co.uk more "homely" or is it just more to remember?

Is .com too "corporate", or "international" or just easy?

Or do I worry too much about the details:biggrin:

 

Cheers, Daniel

[Steve Bullman]

use both. id personally build your site on the .co.uk and redirect the .com to the .co.uk

[Daniël Bos]

Thanks Steve, I'll deffo keep both and redirect one to the other, but wich one do I put on my advertising?

What's your reasoning for using .co.uk?

[gensetsteve]

At £6 ea go for both if available as steve says. If you dont get both someonelse may grab the other one.

[Stuart Witt]

use both. id personally build your site on the .co.uk and redirect the .com to the .co.uk

 

Agreed!

[Daniël Bos]

At £6 ea go for both if available as steve says. If you dont get both someonelse may grab the other one.

 

As I said, I own both aleady, the question is wich one to use on signs ads etc?

 

Thanks

[TerryTibbs]

.co.uk, unless you internationally lay hedges etc.

You're a Uk business, based in the UK. Advertise that.

[Steve Bullman]

Thanks Steve, I'll deffo keep both and redirect one to the other, but wich one do I put on my advertising?

What's your reasoning for using .co.uk?

 

no reason other than im a uk based business. Its a different field i guess, but i wonder if arbtalk would be a different site to what it is now if i had originally gone with the .com version.

 

people will likely remember your name but forget the extension and end up putting .com in anyway.

 

Ive never advertised the .com address and yet still get over 3000 visits to the site a month directly from the .com address

[Rob D]

use both. id personally build your site on the .co.uk and redirect the .com to the .co.uk

 

 

Ditto!

[easy-lift guy]

I agree with Steve as well and since I am International as well I go with the .com since that is what I started out with once upon a time.

eas-lift guy