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You need the ".com" because mere mortals don't think about anything other than ".com". Put another way, for consumers, ".com" is assumed and ".<whatever_the_he

You need the ".com" because mere mortals don't think about anything other than ".com". Put another way, for consumers, ".com" is assumed and ".<whatever_the_hell>" is an anti-pattern.

d0m 11y ago
Yep, if you say "mydomain.co" they will try "mydomain.co.com"
joshmn 11y ago
Whenever someone asks me for my email address ($myfirstname@$myfirstname.mn) and they're not tech savvy I always get "is that @gmail.com or @hotmail...????" I've learned, like you alluded to, nearly everyone associates the internet with .com. Will we ever get past that point? I don't know. As some other comments mention, .co is not the new .com, but .co.com is. Made me chuckle.
- linkydinkandyou 11y ago
  I had the exact same experience. I got my first name, a common name, spelled the usual way, and I made my email "firstname@firstname.to" (that's Tonga). I used this for non-critical mail, like when a business (face to face) asks for an email. I gave up. Nobody understood it. They would try to add .com at the end. Every time.
- rebootthesystem 11y ago
  This brings me back to a nice little marketing book I read about ten years ago: http://www.amazon.com/Positioning-The-Battle-Your-Mind/dp/0071373586 http://www.amazon.com/Positioning-The-Battle-Your-Mind/dp/00... One of the interesting ideas the author postulates is, to put it in CS terms, that people's minds work like a dictionary. Each key associates with one and only one value. And, in this case, the key is a concept, need, category, etc. If you ask someone in the US to name a plumber they'll probably answer "RotoRooter" without hesitation. Fast food? "McDonalds". Rental car? "Enterprise". Fast car? "Corvette". The values side of the relationship isn't necessarily uniform across a population but some keys have more uniformity than others (Fast Food). Once a person makes that key:value association it is really, really hard to break it, if not impossible. Politics tends to work that way too. In the case of the web, the vast majority of people make the following key:value pair association: "internet":".com" And that's the end of the story.

You need the ".com" because mere mortals don't think about anything other than ".com". Put another way, for consumers, ".com" is assumed and ".<whatever_the_hell>" is an anti-pattern.

d0m 11y ago

Yep, if you say "mydomain.co" they will try "mydomain.co.com"

joshmn 11y ago

Whenever someone asks me for my email address ($myfirstname@$myfirstname.mn) and they're not tech savvy I always get "is that @gmail.com or @hotmail...????" I've learned, like you alluded to, nearly everyone associates the internet with .com. Will we ever get past that point? I don't know. As some other comments mention, .co is not the new .com, but .co.com is. Made me chuckle.

linkydinkandyou 11y ago
I had the exact same experience. I got my first name, a common name, spelled the usual way, and I made my email "firstname@firstname.to" (that's Tonga). I used this for non-critical mail, like when a business (face to face) asks for an email. I gave up. Nobody understood it. They would try to add .com at the end. Every time.
rebootthesystem 11y ago
This brings me back to a nice little marketing book I read about ten years ago: http://www.amazon.com/Positioning-The-Battle-Your-Mind/dp/0071373586 http://www.amazon.com/Positioning-The-Battle-Your-Mind/dp/00... One of the interesting ideas the author postulates is, to put it in CS terms, that people's minds work like a dictionary. Each key associates with one and only one value. And, in this case, the key is a concept, need, category, etc. If you ask someone in the US to name a plumber they'll probably answer "RotoRooter" without hesitation. Fast food? "McDonalds". Rental car? "Enterprise". Fast car? "Corvette". The values side of the relationship isn't necessarily uniform across a population but some keys have more uniformity than others (Fast Food). Once a person makes that key:value association it is really, really hard to break it, if not impossible. Politics tends to work that way too. In the case of the web, the vast majority of people make the following key:value pair association: "internet":".com" And that's the end of the story.