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Anyone who has tried to buy a domain knows that a lot of names have been reserved by domainers who have not built out entire sites on the domains. They are oft
by goodkarma 18y ago
Anyone who has tried to buy a domain knows that a lot of names have been reserved by domainers who have not built out entire sites on the domains. They are often parked and have little content other than pay per click ads on them.
The reason a lot of domainers like .com is that most browsers default to it. For example, if you type "widget" into your browser address bar, most browsers will redirect you to http://widget.com http://widget.com.
This captures a noteworthy percentage of traffic from internet users that don't understand the difference between the browser address (URL) box (which happens to be quite large and in the top center of most browsers) and the search box (which is often much smaller and in the upper right corner).
- Goronmon 18y agoI would say that logic isn't limited to just browsers. I'd argue most people default addresses to .com when trying to recall them from memory.
- goodkarma 18y agoAbsolutely true! .com has definitely gotten a lot of mind share. This is a great example of it: "He pulled up Google News, quickly discovering the culprit. The vice presidential debate between Cheney and Sen. John Edwards was going on, and to defend his record, Cheney told viewers to look at Factcheck.com. Cheney had meant to say Factcheck.org, a site run by the University of Pennsylvania. Factcheck.com was one of Schilling's." http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/12/01/8364591/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2...