domain purchase doubts

jammy420 said:

One of my relatives is starting an organization. And it needs a website. Say, the website name is www.gulabjamun.com . They don't want others to misuse the other extensions (the most famous ones) like .org, .net, .edu , etc... Now should they have to purchase each domain separately and pay a subscription for it. ?

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If Organization than buy .org as main for website.

Better if you can select some unique name that not only reveal product + brand name (like Bikaner Bhujia, Lijjat Papad, Bedekar Achar, Ram Bandhu Masale etc.)

No matter how much extension you will buy, scamsters/short cut users can find a way to mimic your website/domain, any one will buy gulab-jamun, gulab_jamoon, gulabzamun, ghulabzamun ghulabjamun, goolabjamun etc. etc.

so save money (no use to book more extensions) & try to build BRAND (e.g. your user name jammygulabjamun.com) and in future if going to add more products than why limit your website for single product name only, think for same from now

jammy420 said:

One of my relatives is starting an organization. And it needs a website. Say, the website name is www.gulabjamun.com . They don't want others to misuse the other extensions (the most famous ones) like .org, .net, .edu , etc... Now should they have to purchase each domain separately and pay a subscription for it. ?

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Your only option is to purchase the domain with each of these extensions and forward them all to the original one.

I tried google.net and it auto forwards to google.com so Google is doing the exact same thing as well.

If you can't afford to pay so much, your only resort is to copyright the name of that organisation. That way, any fraudulent copies can be taken down immediately. You can list down a specific set of extensions and keep a watch on them every once in a while to ensure they are not taken up by fraudsters.

jammy420 said:

One of my relatives is starting an organization. And it needs a website. Say, the website name is www.gulabjamun.com . They don't want others to misuse the other extensions (the most famous ones) like .org, .net, .edu , etc... Now should they have to purchase each domain separately and pay a subscription for it. ?

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If others should not misuse the brand name (and you think this will be done by competition)
Register all primary tlds
.com
.net
.org

And if your target audience focus on India go for this as well:
.in
.co.in

If the domain name ends with a tld register for same as well.
Example Violin = viol.in

jammy420 said:

One of my relatives is starting an organization. And it needs a website. Say, the website name is www.gulabjamun.com . They don't want others to misuse the other extensions (the most famous ones) like .org, .net, .edu , etc... Now should they have to purchase each domain separately and pay a subscription for it. ?

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This is my two cents, seeing how most other orgs deal with it—don't worry about it. For e.g. take ChatGPT. You'd think they own all the domains even with all the funding they have but they don't. For example, something like chatgpt[dot]ai which is very popular with AI products is owned by some random site.

Assuming you have a good brand name, trademarked it and all that, get a good [dot]com domain name since it's still the most popular and recognizable. [dot]in also works just fine if you want to spend less money on it. Preferably buy for multiple years initially since there's some discount on initial purchases but never on renewals.

Invest money into building out social media channels (FB, Insta, WhatsApp, Twitter, Telegram, Threads etc) and branding, and make sure the domain name is present in all those places so folks become familiar with it. Even if competition or scammers try to nick a different TLD tomorrow, it wouldn't matter much. Invest and make sure the site comes on top in Google and other search rankings.

As for naming recommendations, I'd suggest something short and memorable and ending with a popular TLD like [dot]com or [dot]in.I'd also not recommend trying to play with your domain name + TLD combo like the example shown before of viol[dot]in. It just makes it harder to communicate your domain to someone else (e.g. try saying it's violin[dot]com vs viol[dot]in; the former is less confusing when heard).

You can use https://tld-list.com to find what's available and not and where it's cheaper.

There is no clear answer to this, only that scammers will find a way

For BEC frauds - if the company name is techenclave.com - they will first compromise your mails and register techenclaves.com or technclave.com (1 letter change) and send mails from that (and hope no one will find out)

For website frauds - they will use alternative domains and do SEO to push their domain over yours. However, here also .com would be preferred hence they might do the above.

Have seen both cases, so you should be always on your toes. Its a cat and mouse game