Second best to .com, say domain investors — .Net still

When forced to choose an alternative, most go with .net.

If a domain investor can’t get the .com for a domain name but has to choose a secondary gTLD, they choose .net 62% of the time.

That’s based on 1,137 survey responses in Reglike’s 7th annual industry survey.

Survey respondents are asked:

“If you wanted to register a generic domain and .com was by now registered, which extension would you register assuming it was available? (assume you have to select one of these)”

They are given the option of .net, .org, .info, and .biz. (Note the absence of ccTLDs as a choice).

Here’s how it shakes out:

1. .net 62%
2. .org 17%
3. .biz 5%
4. .info 5%

If this question remains on the survey it will obviously need to change in the future. In two years we’ll no longer be looking at such a restricted listed of (essentially) unrestricted top level domains.

See more survey results here.