General question - .org or .com for a Home Owners Association website?

[stephenson]

Hi All,

Looking for some thoughtful feedback and advice.

Getting ready to set up a new website for an HOA.

Both xxxxxxxxhoa.com and xxxxxxxxhoa.org are available.

Preference for either, and why?

Thanks!

 

[pb4uski]

I would have said .org .... but I noticed that our HOA in Florida is .com

Not sure it matters.

 

[MichaelB]

I would have said .org .... but I noticed that our HOA in Florida is .com

Same with ours.

Not sure it matters.

I think in general people are more likely to glance at the address and type “.com” by default.

The “.ORG” is owned by the Public Internet Registry, a non-profit organization. Late last year they agreed to sell it to a hedge fund, which certainly would have raised the fees. They chose to cancel the sale after the negative public response.

 

[stephenson]

Done - .com it is!

Thanks!

 

[OldShooter]

Buy them both. Redirect the one you don't use to the one that you do --- probably dot com. I would buy dot net too. You don't want some porn site to have an address similar to yours. With all the new top level domains you can't completely cover yourselves but you can grab the most common TLDs anyway.

 

[Ronstar]

Ours in Illinois is .org. And our former Arizona snowbird condo association was also .org.

 

[donheff]

It probably would have been more in keeping with original intent of the .org domain classification. But no one had paid much attention in the last 20 years.

 

[tulak]

I’m with OldShooter. I’d buy them both.

 

[Sunset]

.com, and grab it quick as just looking to see if it's available shows up and squatters will buy it , then sell it to you for a fat profit.

 

[ExFlyBoy5]

.com, and grab it quick as just looking to see if it's available shows up and squatters will buy it , then sell it to you for a fat profit.

Except any domain that is www.xxxHOA.com won't be worth squat with "hoa" in the name.

I haven't done it in a few years, but I have made a decent amount of money "flipping" domain names.

 

[The Cosmic Avenger]

Buy them both. Redirect the one you don't use to the one that you do --- probably dot com. I would buy dot net too. You don't want some porn site to have an address similar to yours. With all the new top level domains you can't completely cover yourselves but you can grab the most common TLDs anyway.

Yes, this. Parking and redirecting a domain is pretty cheap, I have 3 or 4 of those types of variants on my vanity domain, just because I can.

 

[badatmath]

mine is a .com