In a world with .XYZ, .APP, .BIKE and more, will there still be love for .COM?

Posted by ssclafani on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @02:53PM
from the medium.com dept.

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Re:In a world with .XYZ, .APP, .BIKE and more, will there st... by Zoot on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @04:03PM (#7146859)

.COM is still the king. It's the first thing to come to mind when typing in a site and I haven't seen any new ".whatever" that has a chance of unseating it. Very limited niche uses for most of the new gltds from my perspective. Good luck to them all but I'll stick with .COM's myself.

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Re:In a world with .XYZ, .APP, .BIKE and more, will there st... by maresca on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:30PM (#7146599)

I'd love to see some rules in the future where a domain has to be used. Something needs to be done about domain squatters. It's getting out of hand.

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Re:In a world with .XYZ, .APP, .BIKE and more, will there st... by xtraclass on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @02:59PM (#7146341)

I always would prefer a .com domain because people are used to it :-) .com sounds better than .whatever ...

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Re:In a world with .XYZ, .APP, .BIKE and more, will there st... by ksec on Thursday January 30, 2014 @02:29AM (#7149466)

the .com domain is far too embedded into everybody's memory. So i dont see this going anywhere soon. The ONLY important domain that could challenge it or at least coexists in same importance would be .web

However due to stupid trademarks issues it is still not being used.

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Re:In a world with .XYZ, .APP, .BIKE and more, will there st... by bhartzer on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @03:54PM (#7146801)

I still like dot com. We all see how well .biz and .info and .travel has done...

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