Fell a bit in love with
.work domains, as it's a top-level domain AND a statement. Have registered domains every year since 2001. Since the premier .com's are gone, something has to be next-best.
As .work was long banned by google, etc., for being almost pure spam, surprised to see that building just a handful of legit .work sites seems to've been enough to remediate its repute. More and more .work sites are showing up on search engines. That seems a prime requisite, filling in nicely as the months fly by.
Like it or not, .net and .org, even .US and .info, have just not gained traction in claiming anyone's attention. Big hint at DNJournal and Domaining (
dot-com's, natch): Look at the insanely high prices of so many alternative domains, esp. in
.de as well as
.io domains. Great for domainizing, overall. It means
.com's go up even more, and one-word premium generic words, too, most of all in products and services that humans type most often into search engines.
Above all is EXTERNAL PROMOTION. When you have backlinks on all of your sites (to your other sites, hee hee), you automatically get more SEO juice. Hey, the more sites providing a link to your site raises search engine's respect, and thus ranking. No one says that many backlinks can't come from your own site, when they're decently (read 'properly' designed:
500 to 5,000 words of good, related content, and backlinks, Bob's yer uncle, you have your own rapid proof that "search engines don't care what's AFTER the dot, only what's before it."
Exception are, of course, those domain extensions, even incl some country codes, that don't get full service, can't be viewed universally. So, for the next few years, at least, seems wisest to stick with TLD's only. That assures that everyone can view your sites. From stereos and lawsuits to wheelchairs and warranties and cameras, saying the domain out loud along with "
.work" is fun enough to justify registering thousands of them, with eye extended to the future. A statement as well as a TLD,
and, just one word. Heavenly, no?
What's
YOUR favorite domain extension?