Question about purchasing own domain

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  highlyirritable · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 11:18 pm

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  I am considering moving my blog to WordPress.org under my own domain, but the .com domain name of my blog is purchased already. The site with my name says it is under construction, and so I have two questions about this.

  1. Is it unusual to contact the site owner (and how do I do this) to see if they would be willing to sell the name?
  2. If this is not possible, would you go with .net, and is this “just as good” for Search engines, etc.

  Thank you so much!

  Jeni
  http://highlyirritable.wordpress.com

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 11:32 pm

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  1. Do a “whois” search to get the contact and registrant information: http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp .

  2. Dot com is the default address everyone typically goes to. Few think of .org or .net typically, so dot com is preferred. Search engines do not care what the address is. It is based on searches and indexing and such, not on whether the domain extension is dot this or dot that.

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  highlyirritable · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 11:36 pm

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  Thank you very much for the prompt and informative response! I appreciate it.

  Jeni

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 3, 2009 at 11:41 pm

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  You’re welcome.