I feel that unless you snag a .com that's your exact name, you're screwed either way. I ended up with [word].io, but I was deciding between that and [word][obs

I feel that unless you snag a .com that's your exact name, you're screwed either way. I ended up with [word].io, but I was deciding between that and [word][obscure animal].com . I think I made the right choice. Fortunately, most of the traffic to my site will be from links and not casual mentions/word of mouth, so the tld shouldn't be a big problem.