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mckeever | 18:47 Wed 06th Sep 2006 | Technology
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What exactly are the benefits of having a .com site rather than a .co.uk ?

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.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").
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
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
.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.
.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.
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

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