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gTLDs are nothing but a money play by ICANN and registrars and really make the internet a (slightly) more confusing and dangerous place. Within epsilon, all th

gTLDs are nothing but a money play by ICANN and registrars and really make the internet a (slightly) more confusing and dangerous place. Within epsilon, all the money spent by companies on gTLDs is dead weight with no payoff in increased usability but only to prevent some naive user from being tricked. The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com”

interestica 6y ago
> The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com” You can't actually mean that? Country TLD? (Eg .CA) I'm actually pretty impressed by how the .CA registry (CIRA) has branded itself in Canada. There's even a bit more legitimacy for sites because it's clear they're operating in Canada (or have at least made an effort for Canadian representation).
- Marsymars 6y ago
  Yeah, my default behaviour for any international company is to navigate to companyname.ca. Even if they don't use TLDs for their regional websites, it typically redirects to their Canadian site. (e.g. apple.ca redirects to apple.com/ca, microsoft.ca redirects to microsoft.com/en-ca, ikea.ca redirects to ikea.com/ca/en, etc.)
- bscphil 6y ago
  Presumably OP is American and does business with American websites 99.9% of the time.
XCSme 6y ago
> The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com” What about ".net"? It's a pretty old, established domain with many large companies using it (themeforest.net, cpanel.net, php.net, ovh.net, doubleclick.net) Also ".io" usually hosts legit internet businesses.
tialaramex 6y ago
> The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com” Ha. Do you give these friends other advice of the same calibre? I wonder what they think of you. "If you've got a choice of brands, you can't go wrong with Trump, it's a sign of quality" "The smaller the house, the bigger the dog you want, if you've got a tiny apartment buy a Great Dane or a Newfoundland, that way it's cosy" "There's no such thing as too much salt. When cooking don't bother tasting it, just add twice as much as you think you need"
vinay427 6y ago
Just in the US, there's also org, gov, and edu, not to mention the countless trustworthy ccTLDs in other countries.

interestica 6y ago

> The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com” You can't actually mean that? Country TLD? (Eg .CA) I'm actually pretty impressed by how the .CA registry (CIRA) has branded itself in Canada. There's even a bit more legitimacy for sites because it's clear they're operating in Canada (or have at least made an effort for Canadian representation).

Marsymars 6y ago
Yeah, my default behaviour for any international company is to navigate to companyname.ca. Even if they don't use TLDs for their regional websites, it typically redirects to their Canadian site. (e.g. apple.ca redirects to apple.com/ca, microsoft.ca redirects to microsoft.com/en-ca, ikea.ca redirects to ikea.com/ca/en, etc.)
bscphil 6y ago
Presumably OP is American and does business with American websites 99.9% of the time.

XCSme 6y ago

> The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com” What about ".net"? It's a pretty old, established domain with many large companies using it (themeforest.net, cpanel.net, php.net, ovh.net, doubleclick.net) Also ".io" usually hosts legit internet businesses.

tialaramex 6y ago

> The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com” Ha. Do you give these friends other advice of the same calibre? I wonder what they think of you. "If you've got a choice of brands, you can't go wrong with Trump, it's a sign of quality" "The smaller the house, the bigger the dog you want, if you've got a tiny apartment buy a Great Dane or a Newfoundland, that way it's cosy" "There's no such thing as too much salt. When cooking don't bother tasting it, just add twice as much as you think you need"

vinay427 6y ago

Just in the US, there's also org, gov, and edu, not to mention the countless trustworthy ccTLDs in other countries.