{"id":3919,"date":"2012-06-18T08:21:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T08:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2012-06-18T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T10:13:31","slug":"commercial-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/commercial-websites\/affordablewebsitestips","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are commercial websites? Commercial websites are any site that ends with the domain extension \u00a0'.com'. <a title=\"domain information\" href=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/domain-name-extensions\/affordablewebsitestips\/tutorials\" target=\"_blank\">Domain extensions<\/a> are more accurately called Top Level Domains or TLDs. The '.com' TLD represents the word \"<a title=\"definition of commercial\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CE8QFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCommercial&amp;ei=x9_eT__mAYq42wWIsLzhAQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNHXNpZI669JXBA2PFLaGHYCUyLlOA\" target=\"_blank\">commercial<\/a>,\" and is the most widely used extension in the world. Most businesses prefer a .com domain name because it is a highly recognized symbol for having a business presence on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of website owners use domain name extensions improperly. For example, if someone creates a personal blog and there's no commercial activity, it shouldn't have the '.com' TLD, yet there are many personal '.com' websites. Basically, a '.com' website should be any site that Buys, Sells, or provides a service for a fee.<\/p>\n<p>'<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/.biz\" target=\"_blank\">.biz<\/a>' is a <a title=\"gtld\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Generic_top-level_domain\" target=\"_blank\">Generic Top Level Domain<\/a> or (gTLD) which stands for business. This domain extension can also represent a\u00a0commercial\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p>'.co' stands for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Country_code_top-level_domain\">Country code top-level domain<\/a> or cccTLD representing the\u00a0district\u00a0of Columbia. Some companies are using the '.co' and\u00a0inferring\u00a0that is stands for '.com' only shorter, but this is really improper use of '.co'. Because major companies like Google (<a href=\"http:\/\/g.co\/\">http:\/\/g.co\/<\/a>) and Aspen (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspen.co\/\">http:\/\/www.aspen.co\/<\/a>) have started\u00a0misusing\u00a0the '.co' domain extension to represent '.com' and since, it has become widely accepted that '.co' can represent commercial websites.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3924\" title=\".co_daddy\" src=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/co_daddy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/co_daddy.jpg 490w, https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/co_daddy-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are commercial websites? Commercial websites are any site that ends with the domain extension \u00a0&#8216;.com&#8217;. Domain extensions are more accurately called Top Level Domains or TLDs. The &#8216;.com&#8217; TLD represents the word &#8220;commercial,&#8221; and is the most widely used extension in the world. Most businesses prefer a .com domain name because it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,285,143,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affordablewebsitestips","category-business-affordablewebsitestips","category-internet-tips","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3923,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}