Domain advice needed, please

[Grumpy_Carl]

Could i get a little domain advice please.

Launching a new website project and want to put it on a domain we already own (both domains are in the same niche as the larger project).  The new project will be aimed at the UK market.

The choice is:

.co.uk we own with a good name, however it's Domain Authority rank is 7 and it's only about 8 months old.

.com domain which is 6 years old, has a Domain Authority rank of 33 but is not as good a domain name.

The Competitive Link Analysis tells me that the rivals for the keywords we would be targeting are between 24 and 42.

Which domain would people go with? All things equal it would be a fair guess that the older, higher Domain Authority ranked .com will require less work to rank in the engines, however it's not as good brand wise.

Thanks

Carl

[Grumpy_Carl]

Thanks for the replies. A little more info, previously both domains have been used for various projects in the fashion niche. One used to be a blog and the other a fashion article site, however neither of these projects were bring in a decent ROI so am working on launching a store on them. It will be a mixture between unique products and affiliate based product imports.

In terms of back links, to be honest, while both domains have fashion related backlinks they are most either on blog or article keywords or just using the domain name as anchor text so there is little benefit to be gained from them in ranking for terms such as 'dresses' 'trousers' etc

thanks.

[Francisco_Meza]

If your target is strictly in the UK, then I would say .co.uk. BUT we don't have any other information as BoB says.

[bobjones]

Going by the limited information, I'd probably opt for the co.uk site since you're deploying in the UK. You could transfer the juice from the .com to the co.uk with a 301

Are the links to the .com relevant to the new site content/market?