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.ie or .com for business

  • 07-04-2008 2:03pm
    #1
    claw14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭


    Ok, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this but it seems like a good start. (If it's wrong please move).

    ourbusiness.ie. Now our company is looking at changing all our email addresses to .com. ".com is more widely accepted !!!!" Not my view at all. We do do business in the US and I know that they more readily recognise .com address but can anyone give me a reason to change, or not. Any reports out there to say that changing your business email to .com will help business ?


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  • #2
    astrofool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,170 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    It's no real problem to have both and redirect one to the other, just make sure one is identified as the main site, and be consistent, i.e. use .ie or .com everywhwere.

    Which department is saying this? Is it one person, or sales/marketing?


  • #3
    claw14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭claw14


    Cheers.
    Setting it up is not an issue. I just wanted to see if there was and evidence out there that a .com address was more acceptable than a .ie address......


  • #4
    dulpit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,393 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    What i would think is that if you are an irish business imo it looks better to have the .ie address... However, it's also probably a good idea to have the .com as well, as a lot of people would tend to go through that (without knowing the address)...

    Keep the .ie as main though...


  • #5
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Blacknight have some thoughts on using .ie or .com on their blog. Worth a read.


  • #6
    ambro25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    It's 100% a perception issue with your client base (which matters most in the US, usually): depending on the market -

    .com makes you look global/established

    .ie makes you look provincial

    Personally, I went straight for .com, no brainer (especially if you deal with the US and/or internationally).

    After that... so long as content / look and feel / etc. don't need a refresh, then it horses for courses.


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  • #7
    Malice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,065 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    irlrobins wrote: »
    Blacknight have some thoughts on using .ie or .com on their blog. Worth a read.
    It's definitely worth a read. This is the link to the article. One important point to consider is to pick up as many of the common suffixes for your company name as you can to avoid people potentially piggybacking your later success. By this I mean that if you register yourcompany.ie and yourcompany.com, someone else could register yourcompany.net or yourcompany.org if you don't. As the article says:
    It's a hell of a lot cheaper to register a couple of extra domain names NOW than get into litigation about them later.


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