The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture

Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by twopoint718 on Monday February 09, 2009 @05:28PM (#474278)

I also have a naive question, does a .com really have "additional credibility" over something else? Why? How about independent of what other websites are doing?

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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by froo on Monday February 09, 2009 @10:12PM (#474628)

Its more due to the brand association people have with the .com domain.

When you're telling friends about sites "I found this great site, its called facebook" - for those people not in the know, the natural thing people do is to use the .com extension.

It's also why the .com domains command a higher premium on the domain name aftermarket.

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Re:The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture by snprbob86 on Monday February 09, 2009 @10:02PM (#474614)

I assume there is some credibility to it. More importantly, it is the default extension tried/searched by browsers when the user doesn't specify a TLD.

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