Increasingly there are full word TLDs (see here: [0]), so I don't think people will find it that weird, especially since most people don't really spend a lot of

Increasingly there are full word TLDs (see here: [0]), so I don't think people will find it that weird, especially since most people don't really spend a lot of time looking at the address bar. The .onion TLD is named for onion routing[1] and has been around for quite a while as you pointed out. If it caught on, I imagine most people would accept the name without much thought. I think the bigger barrier to .onion catching on is getting people to install Tor at all. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing