Here's a scenario: my co-founder and I are trying to finalize our company/website name. We have two names right now, one we like slightly better than the other.<p>The problem is, the .com for the 'better' name is held by a squatter who wants $25k! I hold the .net and .org.<p>The 'worse' domain is slightly longer (an extra syllable), and from my tests so far people find it a bit harder to pronounce. The positive is I own the .com/.net/.org<p>So my question to the bright minds here: how hard do you think it is to brand a company with a .net domain (and potentially purchase the .com when we can afford it)? I know some companies have done it.<p>Would you go with a slightly-better-name.net, or a slightly-worse-name.com?
<a href="http://radar.net">http://radar.net</a> seems to be working fine and radar.com is something entirely different and dumb. They went with the .net because the .com was taken.