Domain names - always dot com?

[GeorgeTH]

Originally Posted by Monsieur

It certainly DOES matter if you want to start a "real" site with the domain (e.g. a TGP, a portal...), because .com is just the most known extension so if your visitors just remember your name (e.g. biggreatasses) and they want to revisit you, they'll probably go to biggreatasses.com and (maybe) after that to biggreatasses.net .

A .com extension also looks better in SERPs or so.

So if you want to start a serious site with a domain name, always choose a .COM!

(This post doesn't count for domain names just used for submitting galleries and free sites, though)

- couldn't have said it any better!

I have to add: I don't collect domains like some, and also don't own a single dot-NET.
If I register something it has to be dot-COM (or currently I'm considering a dot-INFO/COM combination)