EZR.me - URL Shortener

[Fragma]

EZR is a new project that I've decided to set up. The main purpose being to make URL's "E-Z-R" to remember, use & share across the internet.

It's still in its early stages, and I do plan on totally redesigning the layout at some point, however I would like some feedback on how it looks so far.

Link: http://www.ezr.me

Cheers!

[Adam]

Excellent name but not a good TLD and it's not an original concept but good luck with it.

[QuotePort]

I like it, with a decent design I think that it could do well.

If you'd like help with a design, just let me know.

[Fragma]

Excellent name but not a good TLD and it's not an original concept but good luck with it.

Why is it not a good TLD? It needed to be 2 digits to keep it as short as possible. .me is just as good as any other 2 digit TLD.

[Adam]

.me is not as good as any other TLD unfortunately. You'll find your traffic limited.

You really should look at securing the .com TLD. It will cost but it'll repay itself in the long run.

[QuotePort]

.me is not as good as any other TLD unfortunately. You'll find your traffic limited.

You really should look at securing the .com TLD. It will cost but it'll repay itself in the long run.

I disagree, adf.ly and bit.ly are massively popular and neither own the .com

[Adam]

Because they have the might of an excellent affiliation programme behind them.

I'm only trying to help the guy get into a market that's already populated beyond belief. If it was something like link.me or shorten.me then yeah, fair enough but it isn't.

[Fragma]

Because they have the might of an excellent affiliation programme behind them.

I'm only trying to help the guy get into a market that's already populated beyond belief. If it was something like link.me or shorten.me then yeah, fair enough but it isn't.

A websites TLD does not affect it's SEO. Having a .com does not mean I'll get a higher SERP.
The only benefit of having a .com extension would be for its popularity.
What matters is how you brand your website, and getting as many quality backlinks as possible.

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I disagree, adf.ly and bit.ly are massively popular and neither own the .com

bit.ly are now using bitly.com however as I said above it's purely down to the popularity of the extension. They still shorten their links with the bit.ly domain.

For now I'm going to stick with ezr.me. If my site gains a lot of popularity then perhaps in the future I will consider purchasing a .com domain for it.

[Adam]

I agree completely with having the shortened TLD however, if you say to someone who isn't a technologically literate as we, that your site is called ezr.me they'll still probably type ezr.com because that's pretty much all they know. .com and .co.uk

It's a universal domain that every knows because we're still in the .com world. It's called that for a reason and yes it's the most popular and surely that's a good enough reason to get one registered? It'd probably be better for you in the long run to have both.

[Fragma]

I agree completely with having the shortened TLD however, if you say to someone who isn't a technologically literate as we, that your site is called ezr.me they'll still probably type ezr.com because that's pretty much all they know. .com and .co.uk

It's a universal domain that every knows because we're still in the .com world. It's called that for a reason and yes it's the most popular and surely that's a good enough reason to get one registered? It'd probably be better for you in the long run to have both.

To be honest, I don't think the .me extension is particularly hard to remember. As I said before it's probably something worth thinking about in the future, but currently I don't see any need to seek out buying the .com domain, which, by the way, won't be a cheap purchase.

Thank you for the suggestion though.