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In your experience of speculating, have you come across any data about the frequency of people actually typing out domain names? I seem to be typing them less a
by jp555 6y ago
In your experience of speculating, have you come across any data about the frequency of people actually typing out domain names? I seem to be typing them less and less over time.
Are we headed towards a business phone number 515-555-5555.com being a totally sufficient unique domain name? And then well why not just skip TLDs and share IP addresses?
- dsr_ 6y agoPeople can't remember them, so they go to Google and accept whatever Google returns.
- ad31mar 6y agoDitto.
- anderspitman 6y agoI do get the feeling having a domain is almost more about TLS than the name these days
- dgellow 6y agoIt's the case in China, that's one the thing that I really didn't expect when I went there, you had giant ads on building with 2038-232-423.cn (that's just random numbers, but you get the idea).
- ralmeida 6y agoI’ve never been to China, but it appears numbers are chosen over letters for ease of memorization, and are not always random digits: https://gizmodo.com/why-do-chinese-urls-use-numbers-not-letters-1571760829 https://gizmodo.com/why-do-chinese-urls-use-numbers-not-lett...