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It's amazing that in the age of Google Search that anyone places any value on the TLD for a domain. Browser vendors have run dozens of studies that indicate tha
by crabasa 10y ago
It's amazing that in the age of Google Search that anyone places any value on the TLD for a domain. Browser vendors have run dozens of studies that indicate that most people do not enter fully qualified domains in the address bar, which is why all address bars are wired into a search provider.
I feel like the the explosion of TLDs is a very thinly veiled money grab aimed at exploiting two groups of people:
1) Trademark owners
2) Unsophisticated internet marketers
- MichaelApproved 10y agoIt still matters for email addresses.
- verandaguy 10y agoI'd argue that a TLD can add semantic meaning to a website's domain name in a more general way than what would be possible by using subdomains, and without the clutter of using /paths/to/sections/and/pages.
- seizethecheese 10y agoTLDs give a business credibility. People are much more likely to shop at foo.com than foo.info.
- hueving 10y agoBut foo isn't buying '.foo' or foo.blog. I don't see how credibility is related to the new TLDs.
- cloudjacker 10y agopeople are just as likely to click foo.co.m.ru too use whatever money you were going to use on a TLD and use it on your facebook adspend, nobody is typing in addresses anymore.
- tobltobs 10y agoMuch fun building a brand with foo.co.m.ru
- PeCaN 10y agoThrow in a 'u' after the 'm' and foocomuru is far from the worst brand name I've heard.
- TobbenTM 10y ago"Where does the dots go again?"
- 4ndr3vv 10y agoha! Flashbacks to bookmarking in 2003
- SmellTheGlove 10y agoLook at my username so you know my answer is legit. The umlaut goes over a consonant. Seriously though, I don't know how anyone names a business anymore and manages to get a reasonably relevant .com domain name. At some point we gotta give up and use these other TLDs.
- therein 10y agoReminds me of cs.rin.ru [1] [1] http://cs.rin.ru/forum http://cs.rin.ru/forum
- amelius 10y agoThe question is if people are more likely to visit foo.blog than blog.foo.com. I don't think that is the case.
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- Giorgi 10y agoIt is not about directly entering, it is about search results and yes you still get to work to rank them better.
- jasonsync 10y agoDisagree: When we first launched Sync we had to settle with "Sync.us" due to all other TLDs were taken. We forced ourselves to love the name. We printed "Sync For Us" on all our t-shirts and swag. We thought it was an awesome way to capitalize on the TLD. Sync Us .. Sync Us ... Sync Us .... Boy, were we ever wrong! At some point the powers that be (Nokia I think) put Sync.com up for auction. We stumbled on it quite accidentally, one of our developers landed on the auction page while trying to get to our own website. This little irony itself highlights the value of the TLD. So we paid a small fortune and rebranded our company from Sync.us to Sync.com. This turned out to be a game changer for Sync. Everything came into focus. People could more easily remember us, and find us. We gained credibility. Traffic to our website increased dramatically, as did signups. Our initial TLD decision held us back. Is .blog a good TLD? For WordPress users it just might be.