Specialist · Sibley, LA · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 190 votes
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@Adrian SmudeHave not used that extension at all, but times is changing so it might be worth taking a chance at it. But if I was you I would just keep it simple with a .com so it doesn't confuse people until the day this really catches on.
Investor · Dallas TX, United States · Member since 2014 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
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I would use the .house as a landing or squeeze page. Its too early for the general pubilic to really respect .house. In a few years, something like (your town). house might be worth a lot of money to you, but at the moment, people arent searching for keywords and dot (other keyword). The new extensions are just another keyword.
Specialist · Huntingdon, PA · Member since 2014 · 160 posts · 59 votes
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Yes, I think a lot of people would add .com at the end because whatever.house doesn't look like a website address. When I saw the subject of this post, that didn't even cross my mind. I was thinking it didn't make sense and thought the period before "house" must have been on accident. Now, of course, it makes sense. But people in general aren't very tech savvy.
Even the more established options like .net aren't great either because people will still tend to put .com. You're doing good if you can pick a domain name that they can remember before the TLD ending. I think it's better not to throw something new at them on top of it.
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to grab the domain before someone else does it and hang on to it and see what happens. Or you could even do some testing if you have time and see what happens. I wouldn't put all my eggs in that basket, but it could work as a secondary website for testing.
If you were going to try something like that, I think it would be especially important to put "www." in front of the domain so people know it's a website address. With .com people know it's a website address, but with something like .house they probably wouldn't know what it was.
Seeing a lot of the good/simple names are taken for the .com has anyone tried the .house extension? They are more expensive, but worth it?
Speaking as someone in the Tech industry for the last 20 years....any time you can get a .com address that is always better. they may remember the rest of the address but not the extension....
for instances;
houses4sale.com
houses4sale.house
almost always they would remember the houses4sale part but if they dont remember the extension and put in houses4sale.com....they just went to someone elses site