> it's best to have the .com for SEO purposes It's not - and I doubt it ever was - about SEO in the technical sense (the hypothesis being that .com has some ki

> it's best to have the .com for SEO purposes It's not - and I doubt it ever was - about SEO in the technical sense (the hypothesis being that .com has some kind of innate SE ranking benefit compared to other TLDs). To me it's far more that if you have a company called, say, 'YCombinator' then a huge number of people will simply assume you are to be found at YCombinator.com, simply because their experience is that all the other well-known brands live at .com, so why wouldn't you? Why would you choose to fight that if you didn't have to?