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The Most Popular Startup Domain Suffixes
- 1cvmask 6y agoThe most eloquent post on domain suffixes to date. The best riposte to date of Paul Graham’s love of the .com domain suffix: http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html
- blacktriangle 6y agoPG's article is also from 6 years ago. User's views of domains has changed over time as more and more non-.com TLDs become common and simultaneously browser UIs continue to deemphasize the URL.
- didgeoridoo 6y agoThe data behind .ly look truncated. I find it hard to believe that registrations came to a hard stop in 2015. I wonder what’s going on?
- pelagicAustral 6y agoA lot has happened with that domain name. [0][1][2] [0] https://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-be-considered-unsafe/ https://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-... [1] https://www.theregister.com/2004/04/13/libya_falls_off_net/ https://www.theregister.com/2004/04/13/libya_falls_off_net/ [2] https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/04/letter-ly-abrupt-ly-loses-domain-name-as-a-result-of-the-war-in-libya/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/04/letter-ly-abrupt-ly-loses-...
- theandrewbailey 6y ago.ly is the country code domain for Libya. 2015 was a rough year there, and things haven't improved much since.
- FlashBlaze 6y agoI'm really fascinated by .xyz suffix and discovered it after seeing Alphabet[0] website. I have used it for my site[1] as well as for my side project[2]. [0]: https://abc.xyz https://abc.xyz [1]: https://flashblaze.xyz https://flashblaze.xyz [2]: https://notesbin.xyz https://notesbin.xyz