Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name
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Re: Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name
#2As of this moment, our site is still down. Any suggestions regarding how to deal with this situation?
Update: Over 8 hours of downtime later, dns is delegating properly again. Voost is back up.
Re: Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name
#3As of this moment, our site is still down. Any suggestions regarding how to deal with this situation? Update: Over 8 hours of downtime later, dns is delegating properly again. Voost is back up.
Google translate yielded:
Service and Support Technical and General Affairs Office hours: 08:00 to 18:00, Front-hour on-call, 24/7 as an option Tel: 08-555771 55 Fax: 08-555 771 99 Mail: support@bahnhof.se
Sales Questions regarding contracts and RFPs. Hours: 9:00 a.m. to 17:00 Tel: 08-555771 50 Fax: 08-555771 99 Mail: sales@bahnhof.se
Re: Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name
#4As of this moment, our site is still down. Any suggestions regarding how to deal with this situation? Update: Over 8 hours of downtime later, dns is delegating properly again. Voost is back up.
Buy voostapp.com, point it at your servers, and tweet about it (or use some other form of out-of-band communication) while you let people know you're working on it.
Re: Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name
#5As of this moment, our site is still down. Any suggestions regarding how to deal with this situation? Update: Over 8 hours of downtime later, dns is delegating properly again. Voost is back up.
Call them
Re: Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name
#6Yeah. Also, if your TLD belongs to somewhere with a less than stable government, who knows if they'll just stop caring about you.
And, a portion of your users will always try to go to whatever.com instead of whatev.er, the worst part is you have no idea how many, but the guy that's parked the domain probably does. As you grow your business, traffic to the .com domain will only increase, you'll eventually want to buy it but whoever owns it will know they've got your balls in a vice, and you'll have no idea if it's even worth it (except by their word).
It's fine for certain types of businesses (especially those consumed by machines or the people who love them). Sites with eyes for mass appeal should probably try to come up with a memorable-yet-unique .com.
Re: Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name
#7Depends which. My site's at .me, which, being well hyped and having over 100,000 domains, is probably not going to go down soon.
Re: Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name
#8Yeah. Also, if your TLD belongs to somewhere with a less than stable government, who knows if they'll just stop caring about you. And, a portion of your users will always try to go to whatever.com instead of whatev.er, the worst part is you have no idea how many, but the guy that's parked the domain probably does. As you grow your business, traffic to the .com domain will only increase, you'll eventually want to buy…
E.g.: bit.ly became bitly.com, although that seems like a branding decision (with the whole "social link discovery site" thing)
Re: Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name
#9Customer service private
Phone: 08-555 771 00
Weekdays: 08:00 to 21:00
Weekends: 10:00 to 14:00
Mail: customer service (at) bahnhof.se
Re: Beware cutesy two-letter TLDs for your domain name
#10I'll add another reason: People will mistakenly go to .com in droves, regardless of how easy it is to remember or how clever the domain/TLD split is. Having a cute short url is trendy, but it doesn't mean you can avoid the .com if you actually want people to find your site reliably.
I'll also add that visiting http://voo.st/ is giving a "Domain Available" page for me. Completely inexcusable that their error state is advertising for someone to buy your domain.