Use Anything But .Com — Never, Ever
One more example of the .com truism.
From Florida this weekend comes another example of why you ought to never, ever, ever* use anything but .com for an notable web site, such as your main business web site.
A Florida High School, Pace High School, operates the web site PaceHighSchool.net. But someone else owns PaceHighSchool.com, and it is splattered with hard core porn. So when junior logs on to check out the school’s football schedule, he might see something that’s exciting to him but distressing to his parents.
*Now, notice I didn’t say never, ever, ever, ever use anything but a .com. There’s a very limited circumstance in which a non .com makes sense, and that’s with country code domains. But that’s still iffy. When firms get big, they end up deciding the .com is necessary. Another caveat is that if you want to use a .org or something else, that’s fine as long as you also own the .com.
