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The name I would have liked for my website (with the .com suffix) is not available, however it is available with a .me suffix.

So, I have two choices:

Assuming my wevsite is about examples, I have:

www.exple.com (sounds almost like example - but users are likelt to type it incorrectly) www.example.me (correct name, but uncommon suffix, users may get taht wrong too)

So which of the above two is the less of the two evils?.Which one must I go with, and why?

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Note that many websites that started out on uncommon TLDs (the .com, .me, .net are Top Level Domains, or TLDs) eventually moved to .com. Take, for example, del.icio.us - it's now delicious.com. Of course, they had to gain the capital to buy the better domain, so you might not have that option.

However, many oddly named .coms are very successful. flickr, for example, does not seem to suffer due to their name.

But it depends on your audience and how you advertise. If your website is largely going to be visited by computer savvy people, or is always going to be linked via internet advertising, then, other than branding, you don't need to worry too much about it. If people want to get to you they'll google your company's name.

However, if your audience consists of "the average person" and is advertised in print, you need to make it easy to type in and understand, and unfortunately people assume .com for their primary internet usage.

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my particular way: ketinunkantim.com may not be available, so I created arsanji.com and still I can go arsanji.me as well as sooner I'll be taking arsanji.za untill zz because after that, we better start thinking .com as .zzz and still there is a lot to come, before .demo or .google .... you can practicly vary from the original to infinity of domains. All you need to do is to convince people that the domain is yours.

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And, of course, answering to those who there go visit you. – Marcos A Rondineli Jan 25 at 23:30
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Check out this similar Startups.com question.

I think that you should go with the name that you want rather than the domain that's necessary. More and more people these days are starting to use the .me TLD, so it shouldn't be that big of a problem to remember. Also, some domains may work better with .me rather than .com, so you should consider that as well. Consider for example the fact that it's easier to remember support.me rather than support.com. However, you are right that .com shows prestige and is the standard. In the end, though, people will realize that there are limited domain names available and become used to whatever domain name they get, take for example bit.ly.

A great resource that you should look at for searching a domain name is domai.nr. It'll help you come up with a name that is unique and suitable to you.

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