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Old 11-17-2019, 08:32 PM  
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Originally Posted by sincats View Post
My experience has been that people are used to .com so much that unless you own both .co and.com of the same name your efforts will probably benefit the person that owns the .com (when it comes to branding anyways).

.uk launched a little while ago and I picked up some great names So instead of .co.uk it's just a clean .uk. But so far I haven't seen too much movement on that.
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While you may be able to rank in SERPS for the .co, you will definitely lose return visitors who forget the .co TLD and assume the site is at .com.
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