Those of you with geek leanings, and possibly some of you who aren’t, will have experienced the problem – you have a great idea for a new project/product/business/etc and you’ve come up with a name for it and it’s beginning to come together, and then you go to buy the domain, only to discover that .com, .net and .org are all taken. And suddenly you have to decide – do you go for a marginally more obscure ending – .co.uk, org.uk, .info, .me – or do you change the name of the project?
The happened for me with both linkpot.net and fosstr.org (both of which I handed over to a friend when I realised that I wasn’t going to be able to maintain them). In both of those, I took the option to choose a new name and get a ‘decent’ domain. However, it’s happened to me again, and, in light of the recent hubbub from ReadWriteWeb which seems to indicate that a significant proportion of the web use Google rather than actually type in addresses, am I better off keeping the name I like and having a longer TLD, or is there still value in having a short TLD?
Thoughts welcome (although let’s not have a discussion about whether someone in the UK should be using .***.uk rather than a US TLD 
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mrBen
Seems appropriate that I comment on this…
For a new project I’m working on I’ve gone with a .me domain. The resultant name made far more sense than trying to get a .com/.net.
I see nothing wrong with .org.uk, although my preference is usually .org
.com and .co.uk I would only use if it were for a profit-making venture, but that’s personal preference. TLD’s like .net and .eu seem a bit cheap and like you were beaten to it.