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Most users are able to identify example.com as a URL but not example.gq because they have been trained for years to look for .com This training will take some
by styfle 8y ago
Most users are able to identify example.com as a URL but not example.gq because they have been trained for years to look for .com
This training will take some more time for other TLDs and will take more time to become normal.
Even now, companies that start with a strange TLD but grow large enough will eventually buy the .com which repeats the cycle that only .com is legit for commercial services.
Anyone know of popular companies in the USA that don’t use .com?
- mcyger 8y agoZoom.us Twitch.tv BoingBoing.net Chorus.ai ABC.xyz
- styfle 8y agoThis is a great list! Twitch.tv is #31 according to Alexa! One thing to point out, is that 4 of those are country-specific TLDs (or the historic .net) which have been around for awhile so they might still have some familiarity. It starts to look very unfamiliar to non-tech people when URLs have a long TLD, such as: example.blog example.website example.foundation example.engineering example.international