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Ask HN: How do you choose TLD?
- d0lph 10y ago.com - For profit organization .org - Non-profit organization .io - Fancy tech company
- ng-user 10y agodon't forget the Canadian's .eh (I know it's .ca but come on)
- papaf 10y agoAlso if you want to have some fun: https://domainr.com/ https://domainr.com/
- ebcase 10y agoThanks for the mention, I'm one of the folks who operates Domainr. A few years back we added support for all the new gTLDs, and rev'd our suggestion algorithm to somewhat-intelligently include relevant new gTLDs in the search results. It's a great way to discover TLDs. (according to our TLD page — https://domainr.com/about/tlds https://domainr.com/about/tlds — there are 1700+ currently, though many are "brand" TLDs which aren't generally available for registration) Our Favorites page — https://domainr.com/about/favorites https://domainr.com/about/favorites — is also a fun place to see examples of people doing creative work with new TLDs.
- corobo 10y agoI pick .com for everything. .net for network related things but only associated with the .com (CDN cookieless domains, etc). I'm ok with .tv and .io domains for specific things.
- EJTH 10y ago.[country code] for localized content regardless of what it is .com - For selling stuff .net - Communities / free services .io - for dev and html5 game stuff
- lfx 10y ago.eu - for internal tools/apps. Short, cheep, easy to pronounce. .global,.design, .[other new fancy] - for cool sounding domain and tld pair.
- desci 10y ago.org when projects seem sufficiently serious .xyz when it's an alpha, beta or testing project .com when it's meant for silly or stupid things