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I laughed out loud at this example, because I run a site with (what I reckon to be) one of the best domain names for exactly that use-case: https://cycle.trave
by Doctor_Fegg 6y ago
I laughed out loud at this example, because I run a site with (what I reckon to be) one of the best domain names for exactly that use-case:
https://cycle.travel https://cycle.travel
- dangwu 6y agoDo you think having an unusual TLD (travel) is hurting you at all? If someone told an average person to go to "Cycle.travel", I'm not sure that they would understand that to be a web address.
- hobofan 6y agoFrom my experience, such an effect is generally far to small to be a deciding factor (in the beginning). If you look at the traffic of most websites, very few visitors come directly to your website by entering the domain into the address bar (because visitors are far too lazy to type out an address). The biggest chunk normally comes from other websites directly linking to you (this includes search engines and social media sites), or paid advertising (if you do that).
- Scarnface 6y agoAs a kid I knew every one of my friends phone numbers. I couldn't tell you my nearest and dearest now because typing this kind of info manually is long gone.
- dexterdog 6y agoI'm 50 and I can still tell you the phone numbers of all of my friends from growing up. The only number other than mine that I know now is my wife's because it's the number for the grocery store discount card. That stuff sticks because we pounded it in there.
- cableshaft 6y agoI've had to enter in my wife's phone number for various things enough times I know it better than my own phone number now (Meijer mPerks alone I've done it probably 300 times). But outside of that, my own, and my parent's phone number, which has never changed, I don't know any phone numbers.
- Doctor_Fegg 6y agoPretty much this. Lots of people get there by Googling for "cycle travel", and that's fine.
- qppo 6y agoI also use an unusual TLD and people don't have a problem with it, but automated systems do. Email input forms in particular are really bad
- wazoox 6y agoAnd it's a damn good useful website with that.
- Doctor_Fegg 6y agoThanks!
- landgenoot 6y agoI'm using it regularly, it's great! Only one thing that has room for improvement: if you download the .GPX, it always has the same name. It would be nice if it would indicate the date or destination.
- Doctor_Fegg 6y agoDate is a great idea - thanks! If you've saved the route it'll use that as a name, and I haven't wanted to complicate the UI by adding a separate name field (understanding the various GPX file formats is complication enough). But I hadn't thought of adding the date. Will do that.