Domain names available to register can have many different extensions. Selecting a domain name should fit the content of the site and what type of entity is registering the domain. Such as a company, non-profit, person, government entity or country location.
Top Level domain or (TLD) names are the extension names after the dot such as dot-com signifiying a .com domain name. Each one of these has a conotation, purpose or common usage and in some situations limitations to how they can be used. Knowing what the common usage is can help with making a decision on what you select for a name. This needs to be balanced with something that fits closely the content of the site or in some cases a previously selected company name.
A brief description and information on how the domain is used. With some notes on popularity and context. These are extensions that are available to be registered here with Targetmarket.biz it is not an all inclusive list.
The most popular domain name is the dot-com Top level domain name extension. It is intended to designate a commercial entity, but is not restricted in any way. Registration of .com names has gotten more difficult and some times very expensive. If you have a idea to promote and you can find a name that fits it may well be worth regestering that .com name. In one case just getting a new name with the s on the end cost over a Million dollars. So obviously some one felt the traffic it would get was going to pay off over time.
Originally this Top Level Domain name extension was set up to take some of the pressure off the .com domain name registrations. With the number of dot-coms already registered it was getting hard to find and register names that were available and fit the company's name or activities. So the .biz was started. There are no specific qualifications to register a .biz domain name, except that it must be for "bona fide business or commercial use". In practice this is not inforced. Intended to be a restricted domain aimed at businesses, in practice the .biz domain is run as an unrestricted domain, anyone can register a name with this extension for any use.
This Top Level Domain name extension was set up for "noncommercial" or "nonprofit" sites Now anyone can register a .org domain since it is unrestricted. It started out as being an alternative name for those that did not fit the other top level domain names.
Originally this Top Level Domain name extension was set up to designate a network when it was set up back in 1985. So it would have been for Internet service providers an example would be DSL.net where I worked for some time. Now the common useage is as an alternative to a .com name and is the third most popular name behind .com and .de.
This Domain name extension was set up for the use of individuals' real names, nicknames, screen names, pseudonyms or other personal names. This is not a country code used for something else
.at is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Austria. It has been also utilized for many creative domain names utilizing the .at ending to make up a phrase so it will be memorable. An example would be Bo.at This is not a restricted domain.
This domain name was set up as a country code that was the abbreviation for "Western Samoa", the nation's name when two-letter country codes were standardized. Now the .ws is often used to denote "Web Site" or "World Service"
This domain name .jobs is a restricted domain. So it can not be used for other purposes. All .jobs domain name applications will be verified by the registry operator, Employ Media.
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