The Best Domain Extension Is...?

Here's the "Pepsi vs. Coke" of domain debates. Sorry, it had to be done. So, vote for your pick for the greatest domain extension! (Greatest can mean most brandable, receives the most traffic, has the best luck in search engines or any other reason you might have!)

I'm willing to bet that one just came to mind the instant you've read that question. Vote for it here! (To avoid a mile-long list of options, we'll only show the "main set" of universally registered domains)

.net is sometimes referred to as "the other .com" - being one of the original three extensions, .net was always favored by info tech companies, server hosts and other related computer service providers.

A popular rumor amongst webmaster message boards is that the .org extension (originally intended ONLY for non-profits and charitable organizations) holds search engine weight higher than .net and possibly .org due to this fact. .org was actually never intended to be a publicly registered domain - but it became too late once released. So, do you believe .org takes precedence in the eyes of Google et all?

Have domain names like del.icio.us gotten ann.oy.ing? Sound off with your vote on whether domain hacks have jumped the shark!

Subdomains can be created through your hosting provider. Say that you own me.com - a subdomain you can create might be for.me.com, with.me.com or buy.me.com. It's simply the "prefix" separated by a period, before your domain. Subdomains are treated like seperate websites by search engines, rather than being related to the domain it's based off of. Do you think subdomains help in terms of SEO? Would "buy.me.com" rank higher for key phrases than "buy.com/me"? Vote here!

A ccTLD, or "country code top level domain," is a domain extension created specifically for a single country...for instance, co.uk for the United Kingdom, or .it for Italy. They are typically able to be registered if you live in or own an office in that country. Some are made "universally registerable," and it doesn't matter where in the world you're in before you purchase a domain with the extension.

You're smart enough to know that .ws is the extension for Western Samoa (not Web Site), and .tv is the country code for Tuvalu (not Television). No, .me doesn't stand for "me" as in "myself," but for Montenegro. Do you buy (literally) into the ccTLD hype, or dismiss it as rubbish?

.info has gotten widespread praise since its induction in 2001. There's no mistaking that any website extension named ".info" means that the site it's running is informative in some way: a thesaurus, encyclopedia, or wiki site. However, spammers have dragged it through the mud. It's low cost made it attractive for "mass production" of spammy, low-quality sites. Google responded vehemently. Today, .info domains typically stuggle to get indexed - regardless of if they are legitimate sites that "play by the rules," or not.