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Ask HN: In 2018, are consumers warming up to gTLDs?
In trying to get through the hype that Google search results present for the trailing 6mo of 2017, I'm interested in the HN community perspective on using a gTLD (such as a ".market" for e-commerce) rather than a longer variant as a ".com".
- iambateman 9y agoWe have used “.camp” for a summer camp for several years and had no trouble, even in the general market. I’m mostly concerned about how many letters are in the longer ones. .barcelona? I mean come on.
- dfee 9y agoIf you did analytics on it, did you determine that there were any kind of conversion or trust issues associated with using ".camp"?
- iambateman 9y agoWe didn’t have a stand-alone website for this before the .camp. Seweesummer.camp. I do know that participation is up by 30% over the past three years. I wouldn’t attribute all/much of that to the website, but .camp doesn’t seem to scare folks away. Part of it too is we are part of a University, so trust issues are mitigated there.