Finally acquired the .com for our business!

[James]

It's good you acquired the matching .com
Unfortunately a .com.au will still always leak traffic to a .com domain, (such a shame that the .au is 'umbrella'd by the .com)
Well done on your purchase, also by getting that price down so much!
Would the same scenario come to be if you weren't a domainer? Maybe not..

Probably not, that is why a few of our clients have requested domain acquisition services from our business as well lol. In the end of the day it also depends who you are dealing with and how good is the name. In our case this domain was not high end its just something we "need".

 

[snoopy]

It's good you acquired the matching .com
Unfortunately a .com.au will still always leak traffic to a .com domain, (such a shame that the .au is 'umbrella'd by the .com)
Well done on your purchase, also by getting that price down so much!
Would the same scenario come to be if you weren't a domainer? Maybe not..

I think the leakage is pretty low. Agree there definitely is some though.

 

[Jack]

Thanks for going over the deal in detail for us. Again, congratulations on picking up the .com

 

[atom]

what a load of rubbish. australia has the strongest brand recognition in the world for its CCtld
i can't see ANYONE going to dubbodentist.com !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tim, merry xmas

I reckon it depends on the name. I take your point with dubbodentist.com, but I know for a fact that I've lost traffic and emails in the past to .coms. And the reverse has happened too, I have my name.com, but not .com.au, and I stopped using it ages ago for emails because too many emails meant for me were going to the owner of the .au...

Getting both can be a huge advantage.