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The $100 MBA Show

MBA1445 Q&A Wednesday: Do I need to also buy the .net and .co for my domain?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Every business needs a website, and therefore a good domain name. But do you need all the domains with that name? Good question. It’s Q&A Wednesday, and one listener wants to know if you should buy up the .com alternatives: the .co, the .net, even the international domains like .uk and .au. How many domains is too many?

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to the $100.

0:01.0

You're going to the

0:02.0

Hey, welcome to the $100.00 MBA show, your business gets built every day with our daily 10 minute business

0:15.0

lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar is at home.

0:20.3

I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online.

0:25.4

And today's episode is a Q&A Wednesday episode.

0:28.0

On our Q&A Wednesday episodes, I answer a question from one of you, one of our listeners.

0:32.4

If you have a question you want to ask, just email me over at

0:35.0

Omar at 100MBA.net and I'll make sure to answer your question right here on the show.

0:40.3

Today's question is from Felix and Felix asks do I need to also buy the dot net and the

0:45.8

dot co extensions for my domain or is just having the dot com fine? Solid question

0:51.3

Felix it's a common one and we've touched on this topic in the past, but it's been a while

0:56.5

so I'll make sure to answer it right here on Q&A Wednesday.

1:00.0

When you're registering your company's domain name to start that website to start that business you might think hey do I need to buy the other extensions like your business dot net your business dot co or if you're like outside the US your business.com dot a you or dot uk or

1:14.9

n z these are all country extensions you might think I need to snatch these up in all

1:20.2

forms well in today's episode I'll give you my advice if you should buy all the extensions available because hey they're offered to you by the domain registrar or maybe not or maybe when is the right time to do it?

1:33.0

We get into all that and more in today's Q&A Wednesday, so let's get into it.

1:36.5

Let's get down to business.

1:38.9

Felix is starting an online business.

1:41.0

He's got his dot-com address was just great, but he's asking, does he need to buy

1:46.8

the dot net extension, the dot-co as well?

1:49.6

And for those who are listening, any other extension you might be thinking of,

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