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I have recently purchased the .com domain for my product. For the past 10 years I have only owned used the .net domain (although for not much more than a landing page as it's an App Store app).

Is there a best practice what to do in this situation today? I'm currently forwarding from .com to the .net domain. Should I forward from .net to the new .com domain instead? Or keep it as it is?

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How much does SEO play a role in your customer acquisition? Do you have a lot of existing backlinks to the .net domain? Do you plan to continue building this product for a long time?

Depending on the answers to these questions, I would evaluate the tradeoffs of migrating. If SEO is not critical or if you already have a certain domain authority / backlinks or dont plan to continue for a long period of time - then it may not make sense to migrate.

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