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Wow, did that help business, or was it more of a vanity thing? I was thinking domains didn’t matter all that much.

gkoberger 6y ago
I think pg sums it up the best: http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html "The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness. Unless you're so big that your reputation precedes you, a marginal domain suggests you're a marginal company." I'd say there's a few major reasons: protecting the name and signaling we're a real company to larger corporations. For us, we also host websites that allows JS/CSS/HTML, so being able to put our assets on a separate domain helps with security issues.
- billiam 6y ago
  Whew, that is the sentiment of a true plutocrat and elitist. You're weak unless you're rich and pay to rent in the good part of town. Sure, it's desirable to look serious to commercial partners and investors, but mostly it's an Internet branding tax. Most of your customers will Google your site.
  - bawolff 6y ago
    I definitely look down at people with .info domains. The effect is alive. (TLDs are stupid at this point. If it was up to me we would kill all of them except .com and .org)
    - Reelin 6y ago
      > kill all of them except .com and .org A bit tangential, but ignoring reality for a minute wouldn't it make more sense to kill .com and .org as well and retain only the country codes (ie .us, .uk, .cn, etc)? At least it would make the various jurisdictional issues clear. (In a perfect world, I also wish there were legislation forcing any and all local government entities to use appropriate <service>.gov.<country> domains. It is incredibly difficult to explain to the average person why a few government websites have .com or .org or other random TLDs, and the inconsistency of it all makes things easier for scammers.)
      - bawolff 6y ago
        Hmm that's an interesting idea. I personally like the idea of "cyberspace" transcending national boundries (i know, eyeroll), which is why i'm a fan of only .com, but your proposal makes a certain amount of sense.
        3131s 6y ago
        What? How does limiting TLDs to only .com make any sense and how does that help with transcending national boundaries? I'm no fan of how new TLDs have been rolled out either... Take a look at the Public Suffix List because you'll need to do away with a lot of TLDs.
  - gkoberger 6y ago
    Yikes. It's just a business doing business things. You can put away the guillotine; it's just a domain name.
  - ulimn 6y ago
    > Most of your customers will Google your site. And that's why seeing ".com" is important. You just proved his point, duh.
    - zaphirplane 6y ago
      How proved the point ?search engine then click. If people checking the link was a concern the whole spam/phishing scamming industry would be out of a job
      - Reelin 6y ago
        Exactly this. I exclusively use search when navigating to any financial website. There's a very large financial incentive to pull off a "typo" fishing domain in those cases as well as a need to regularly check for data breaches.
  - keeganpoppen 6y ago
    man what is with takes like this nowadays? hi, welcome to human nature, where people judge books by covers, and have since time immemorial. why do you think people go to the McDonalds in Cairo right next to the pyramids? (hint: it's not because of the authenticity of local experience) that's not the "sentiment of a true plutocrat and elitist" at all-- it's the sentiment of a realist. and what is a "true plutocrat", anyway? sounds like some "no true scotsman" / eye of the holder bs to me, honestly.

I think pg sums it up the best: http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html "The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness. Unless you're so big that your reputation precedes you, a marginal domain suggests you're a marginal company." I'd say there's a few major reasons: protecting the name and signaling we're a real company to larger corporations. For us, we also host websites that allows JS/CSS/HTML, so being able to put our assets on a separate domain helps with security issues.

billiam 6y ago
Whew, that is the sentiment of a true plutocrat and elitist. You're weak unless you're rich and pay to rent in the good part of town. Sure, it's desirable to look serious to commercial partners and investors, but mostly it's an Internet branding tax. Most of your customers will Google your site.
- bawolff 6y ago
  I definitely look down at people with .info domains. The effect is alive. (TLDs are stupid at this point. If it was up to me we would kill all of them except .com and .org)
  - Reelin 6y ago
    > kill all of them except .com and .org A bit tangential, but ignoring reality for a minute wouldn't it make more sense to kill .com and .org as well and retain only the country codes (ie .us, .uk, .cn, etc)? At least it would make the various jurisdictional issues clear. (In a perfect world, I also wish there were legislation forcing any and all local government entities to use appropriate <service>.gov.<country> domains. It is incredibly difficult to explain to the average person why a few government websites have .com or .org or other random TLDs, and the inconsistency of it all makes things easier for scammers.)
    - bawolff 6y ago
      Hmm that's an interesting idea. I personally like the idea of "cyberspace" transcending national boundries (i know, eyeroll), which is why i'm a fan of only .com, but your proposal makes a certain amount of sense.
      - 3131s 6y ago
        What? How does limiting TLDs to only .com make any sense and how does that help with transcending national boundaries? I'm no fan of how new TLDs have been rolled out either... Take a look at the Public Suffix List because you'll need to do away with a lot of TLDs.
- gkoberger 6y ago
  Yikes. It's just a business doing business things. You can put away the guillotine; it's just a domain name.
- ulimn 6y ago
  > Most of your customers will Google your site. And that's why seeing ".com" is important. You just proved his point, duh.
  - zaphirplane 6y ago
    How proved the point ?search engine then click. If people checking the link was a concern the whole spam/phishing scamming industry would be out of a job
    - Reelin 6y ago
      Exactly this. I exclusively use search when navigating to any financial website. There's a very large financial incentive to pull off a "typo" fishing domain in those cases as well as a need to regularly check for data breaches.
- keeganpoppen 6y ago
  man what is with takes like this nowadays? hi, welcome to human nature, where people judge books by covers, and have since time immemorial. why do you think people go to the McDonalds in Cairo right next to the pyramids? (hint: it's not because of the authenticity of local experience) that's not the "sentiment of a true plutocrat and elitist" at all-- it's the sentiment of a realist. and what is a "true plutocrat", anyway? sounds like some "no true scotsman" / eye of the holder bs to me, honestly.