Are .eu domains as good as .com are they as searchable as other domains?
2007-09-29 23:20:08 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
They're not as common, as most countries use their own domain.
However, it doesn't matter what your domain name is in order to be as easily "searched".
2007-09-29 23:27:35 · answer #1 · answered by mik3ct 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe they are not as good as .com domains for the reasons that many people will commonly try placing the companies name in front of the countries domain or .com before using a search engine, and also .eu are not as common so don't seem very professional.
2007-09-30 06:32:59 · answer #2 · answered by LiamNZ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
".com" was the top level at the beginnings of the web (there were no others!).
Then came .biz, .org etc, to indicate more precisely what the site was for.
Then came the extensions ".co.uk", ".fr"... and the Country label extensions: this became useful to figure out where the site was.
Since the EU, ".eu" came into place, and most of us came to think ".com" is U.S., and ".eu" is Europe. Nevertheless, force of habit, if we search a company, we STILL start searching for www.someone ".COM".
It is really a question of taste and availability: an international company will have a ".com" main site, linking to ".fr" to their french division, to ".de" for the german and so on.
By having a site with ".com", you are sure that it will be picked up by all search engines (it is a LEGACY from the past!), and, to many, ".com" is still prestigious!
It is not!
It does not make any difference (anymore) for search engines whatsoever!
2007-09-30 06:46:26 · answer #3 · answered by just "JR" 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and yes.
.eu domains have been setup as tld: Top Level Domains, just like .com, .org, .co.uk, etcetera.
They're relatively unknown yet, since they'e only been around for a year or so. But they are just as good and searchable as any other domains.
2007-09-30 06:24:45 · answer #4 · answered by pete_can_do 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋