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three things: 1. its hard to search for you guys. your name is hard to SEO on. for example "medium kafka" gets you relevant search results. "able blog" doesnt
by sandGorgon 7y ago
three things:
1. its hard to search for you guys. your name is hard to SEO on. for example "medium kafka" gets you relevant search results. "able blog" doesnt even feature you in the first page. Could you consider changing it ?
2. your tld is nice for branding, but im not sure if you know that these kind of tld have resolution issues in Asia. it would be nice if you were on a .com (even ablebio.com).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15663988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15663988 and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20981212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20981212
3. the .bio domain is dangerous. https://icannwiki.org/.bio https://icannwiki.org/.bio
>Thus, to respect the European Union's standards for 'bio' /organic food, this open TLD will have regulations in place for registrants intending to use it as a space for organic food products. The rest of the non-organic related TLD will not be regulated. The French warning notes the wide range of international standards on agricultural products and organic food, and consequently believes that the TLD can not be implemented unless it is not at all used to denote material related to organic agriculture. It warns of consumer harm or confusion if the TLD were to be implemented.
Since this is a blog service, you would have to strongly regulate this - otherwise other blogs would go down if the EU screws you because of some agricultural/organic food blog someone writes.
in fact you can read lots of similar posts here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20981212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20981212 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15663988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15663988
- new_here 7y agoThanks for the feedback, we're still quite a small site so our authority still needs to grow. Google has said that TLD's shouldn't affect ranking. I didn't know there about the issues in Asia, thanks for mentioning this. We've looked into the use of bio and there was a case where they considered it to be appriopriate for biographical purposes. Ultimately though, we do want to get a better tld. I just can't afford it on my current salary :) - suggestions are welcome.
- fakeinc 7y agoable.net only costs 17 dollars per year on Google Domains. This should work. :)
- sandGorgon 7y agoits not about tld affecting ranking - its about brand keyword search matching. your brand keyword is a bit too generic to match if i search "able blog something" you should generate names - https://deepnamer.com https://deepnamer.com (nice... it just gave me writeradar.com and codeberch.com ) or https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/code+write https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/code+write
- tzs 7y agoIf your TLD will be used for email addresses, I'd recommend sticking to .com, .org, or .net. A lot of spammers are sending a lot of spam using addresses in the newer TLDs. There is so little legitimate mail from them compared to the spam that it can make sense to treat the whole TLD as a spam source and whitelist any legitimate correspondents you have there. As far as I know, the new TLDs are fine for websites. Maybe do something like able.bio for your site, but also get something like able-bio.com [1], and use that for mail from the site. [1] I am just assuming that able.{com,net,org} are already taken.