Life Of E's

Your domain name acts as your calling card on the web, since you can choose a name that represents your business, your family name, or anything else that can be remembered easily and associated with you. If you add 1&1 WebMail to your hosting package, you’ll be able to send and receive e-mail with your domain name as the address.”

 

The second part of the answer is my response:

• .com is most recognized
• .net is also pretty well recognized and people are used to it
• .org you can only get if you are a certain type of organization; there are rules for that one.
• .info implies that it’s info about something but it can be used for anything
• .us is worth getting once you really hit on your main domain (like I own megginmcintosh.us but not any other .us’s (at least that I’m thinking about right now…I own so many that sometimes I forget). 
• .name is supposed to only be used when it’s really your name but I’m not sure how much that is checked.
• .biz is the one they tried to get to relieve some of the pressure on the .com’s but it’s never taken off the same, although it’s worth getting on some of your most important domain names
• .tv is only for tv stations
• .mobi is if you are sending things to mobile phones, or something like that.
• Not sure what .ws is. I’ll have to find out.

So go for sure with .com and get a bunch of those and then when you really hit on your company name or a brand name, buy some of the others. They’re cheap, cheap, cheap.

Great questions, Cindi (and welcome!)