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I would assign anything hosted on .blog a huge reputational hit. But the fact that so much money was put behind it makes me think of two possibilities: 1) Autt
by flashman 10y ago
I would assign anything hosted on .blog a huge reputational hit. But the fact that so much money was put behind it makes me think of two possibilities:
1) Auttomatic has far more money than sense, or
2) I am out of touch with the way other internet users assign value to domain names.
It's entirely possible that the second one is true. I've been using the internet for twenty years now, so I really have no idea how meaningful other people find particular gTLDs.
- adevine 10y agoI think that in your head you're comparing this to buying a single domain name, e.g. playing 19 mil for blog.com or something, but it reality Auttomatic is really paying to be the registrar for .blog domains. I can imagine a lot of reasonable people paying $19 a year for a myname.blog website.
- ValentineC 10y ago> I can imagine a lot of reasonable people paying $19 a year for a myname.blog website. Why would a reasonable person do that when they can do something similar with blog.myname.com (and the like)? I don't know how the new TLDs have been perceived, but I certainly would prefer a nice sounding myname.com than a website on any of these newfangled names.
- scurvy 10y agoWell they have raised over $190M, and I don't see them spending it on marketing like Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, and GoDaddy. At least I haven't seen any ads or anything. Maybe this is their marketing budget?