{"id":11,"date":"2005-03-27T06:33:18","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/27\/com-or-comsg-domain-name\/"},"modified":"2006-03-26T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T02:24:18","slug":"com-or-comsg-domain-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/27\/com-or-comsg-domain-name\/","title":{"rendered":".com or .com.sg Domain Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>what&#8217;s the difference between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/domain-name\/index.shtml\">.com domain name<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/domain-name\/sg-domain-names.shtml\">.com.sg domain name<\/a>? which should i go for? very often i&#8217;m asked this question.<\/p>\n<p>well, technically, they work exactly the same way. ftp, email, web pages, scripts, dns&#8230; there&#8217;s no difference in how a web site is run no matter what domain name it is.<\/p>\n<p>however, you may prefer one over the other for some reason:<\/p>\n<p>1)price is different, very different. cost of .com .net .org domains is US$7-15, while .com.sg domain name costs S$60-80. so if there&#8217;s no special reason, stick with .com names, it won&#8217;t hurt most likely.<\/p>\n<p>2)where is your target market? unless you want really strong local identity, .com domain name is generally acceptable. if you run a shopping mall, or yours is neighbourhood community web site, you may want <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/domain-name\/sg-domain-names.shtml\">.sg domain names<\/a> as people can tell immediately who you are.<\/p>\n<p>3)you are singapore branch of an international company? then you may want to register .com.sg domain and put localized content.<\/p>\n<p>4)short, crispy .com version domain is taken while .com.sg name is still available. nowadays almost all the short, eye catching, 1 or 2 word .com domain names are taken by someone, it&#8217;s really hard to get a good .com name. however, there are still many good .com.sg names available.<\/p>\n<p>5).com domain name is open to anyone, .com.sg is available to singapore registered companies only.<\/p>\n<p>the same applies to .net .org and other country domain names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what&#8217;s the difference between .com domain name and .com.sg domain name? which should i go for? very often i&#8217;m asked this question. well, technically, they work exactly the same way. ftp, email, web pages, scripts, dns&#8230; there&#8217;s no difference in how a web site is run no matter what domain name it is. however, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.singaporewebhosting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}