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Wouldn't that also depend on the target audience of the site? If a site was targeted at the same people that use HN for example, I doubt they'd have a problem w
by decadentcactus 17y ago
Wouldn't that also depend on the target audience of the site? If a site was targeted at the same people that use HN for example, I doubt they'd have a problem with the site using a .net
- davidw 17y agoWhat if they only sort of peripherally remember the name? It's about finding it, rather than using it.
- zepolen 17y agoMost people (even geeks) use google to find a site they don't remember the exact url for, and google does a very good job at finding that url, regardless if there is a .com with the same name. Eg. searching for 'python' gets you python.org as 1st result. You don't want to go to the .com
- davidw 17y agoBecause a ton of people link to python.org. Your startup most likely will not have that advantage. Also, I wonder how many people (say, someone's boss), heard about this cool Python language and just tried python.com. Oops.
- asmosoinio 17y agoSingle data point: I had not seen python.com before this, and have been programming in Python for a few years. Somehow I also remember it's php.ne, not .com, even though I haven't visited that site so much lately. But both of these were already an established internet brand when I started using them.
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- access_denied 17y agoWell, Gruber has daringfireball.net and .com