.co.uk OR .com

[mckeever]

What exactly are the benefits of having a .com site rather than a .co.uk ?

Thanks in advance

[fo3nix]

.com is for international for-profit companies, officially, though many of them belong to just american companies given the place the web really took off first.

.co.uk is for for-profit companies in the UK.

Both are used for other purposes too though, especially .com, given the fact that it's easy to remember ("dotcom").

[potterfan3]

when i was in spain, i typed in google.com and it came up in spanish, however when i put google.co.uk instead it came up in english

[devilatwork]

As fo3nix said .com is used globally but is mainly used by americans. So in answer to your to your question if your planning on going for a global audience then .com. British people will only type .co.uk so obviously if Britain is your target audience then .co.uk is better

[OBonio]

.com is the most desirable top level domain. .co.uk just denotes it's a company in the uk. All the companies I have worked for have registered both.

[jenstar]

.co.uk allows you to remove your personal info from WHOIS - I don't think .com does, so that might be an advantage for .co.uk.

[potterfan3]

An advantage for .com is that the user only has to type the domain name in (eg google) and then hit CTRL + enter and it automatically puts the "http://www..............com" around it. I don't think you can do something like that for .co.uk, but you can do it for .net by pressing shift +enter and .org by pressing CTRL+shift+enter