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Re:Ask HN: Do you still “need” the .com in 2023? by rcme on Monday July 03, 2023 @12:46AM (#36568980)
Was your .com helpful to you? You said it was worth it, but how are you evaluating that worth? Is the business doing well?
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Re:Ask HN: Do you still “need” the .com in 2023? by jesterson on Monday July 03, 2023 @03:40AM (#36569979)
You can easily evaluate it by getting say, xxx.com and xxx.net.

Market xxx.net and see how much traffic .com sister will get.

Results will be surprising (it were surprising for me)

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still “need” the .com in 2023? by mike_d on Monday July 03, 2023 @04:08AM (#36570154)
The insane amount of money spent advertising .com is only comparable to maybe the amount spent on (800).

Every time Nike puts "nike.com" on a billboard, or Coca-Cola prints "coke.com" on a bottle, that is advertising dollars spent on reminding everyone that websites are at [what you want].com.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still “need” the .com in 2023? by gavinhoward on Monday July 03, 2023 @07:12AM (#36571333)
Yes, it has been helpful, even though I just started my business and haven't gotten customers. (I technically just barely started it.)

This is why: email. It's much easier for people to remember my email with a dot com domain. I've had at least one person comment on having the dot com as my business email and as my code forge site.

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