Pretend your a regular websurfer for a moment! (need advice)

Hello Ladies and pervs,

I need some branding help in the general chat because all of you are sick of webmaster stuff so you look here and this is the mind-frame I need.

It's a rather simple question but I decided to get a second oppinion.
I am launching a new website that is targeting the teenage/hipster/cool-dude market. Also in other words, people that dont know anything but MSN Messanger

I managed to buyout perfect keyword domains for the site and I am sticking to them. However, since my crowd is really not all that internet cool I decided i'd rather have a good keyword none dot com then a shitty long .com.

(example) Let's says the website is about Buddy Icons.. I got BuddyIcons.Biz and BuddyIcons.Info

Which should I choose to develop? At first I was going with the .info then I kinda thought .Biz because its shorter. What should I choose?

- I am sure it can work with both .info and .biz rather then .com so dont even mention "You should go with .com shitty domain" Because thats not the question

 

I'd go .info because how many teenagers want to think about .Biz/business/anything-work-related.

.Info gets my vote.

 

I have to concur with Bazkaz on that - .info might be right in their line of thinking and .biz may be a buzz kill

 

.biz never caught on. It's a stupid TLD and I don't think anyone uses it. I use some .info TLD's and they don't have any problems w/ users or SE's.

 

Well as a cool-dude myself I say go with info

 

Wow the Biz is loosing badly! Thanks guys for helping! I thought no one will reply to something like this! Anymore opinions would be great as well just for the sake of argument

 

I'm a LOT cooler than HodgedUp and I also would opt for .info over .biz for a new site. Eventually, you can optimize a site to achieve SE prominence no matter what the TLD but for a startup there may be some advanatage - as a previous poster said, .biz implies a commercial business site and teens who know that probably wouldn't want anything to do with it.

One thing though: check to see whether {domain}.com already exists as a site (as opposed to just someone holding the domain name as an investment) - and do the same for .net and .org because the more common tld's may end up getting some of your traffic.

Sometimes, if the .com is gone, you might do better with a .ca or .uk, etc., domain name - that depends on the type of site and expected target audience, of course.

 

That was my first instinct with the domains, id be happier with .org .or .net. The thing is everthing is taken and these 2 I was lucky to buy from owner. Nothing left except .bz and .ms extention which I would rather not even use having .info.