.com or co.uk

[kopend]

does it matter if your website is .co.uk or .com if you are company based in the uk

what are the advantages / disadvantages of each

and if you are .co.uk will you apper higher up on a uk google search???

[jp_2031]

Im not entriely sure, but it seams when i go to google.com and search for an item, i will get american results ie- everything will be in dollars, it will give me the american Ebay and Amazon... So personally if im looking for a UK company, i use google.co.uk to search.

I guess it would make a difference to appearing higher up if you are UK and im only searching for websites in the UK - it would remove all the searches in america?

[ChuckFickens]

technically it makes no difference at all if you use a .com, .co.uk or any other TLD (top level domain)

From a marketing standpoint then a .co.uk will make UK based people feel more comfortable that they are dealing with a UK based company (though there is nothing to stop somebody anywhere in the world using a .co.uk)

most companies I've dealt with would register both the .co.uk and the .com TLD if both are available and then simply point them both to the same website