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I use ".me" for my personal domain/email and I still get strange looks about this TLD from anyone outside the tech community. E.g. I give my email address to a
by masnick 15y ago
I use ".me" for my personal domain/email and I still get strange looks about this TLD from anyone outside the tech community. E.g. I give my email address to a clerk at a clothing store and I have to convince him that .me is a valid domain ending.
This makes me think it will take a while before it makes sense for companies to embrace the new anything-TLDs as their main web presence. The last thing you want to do is confuse potential customers who are trying to go to your website.
Perhaps .app customers are savvy enough for this not to be a problem, though I don't see why any company would want to take this risk unless there were really no acceptable .com's.
- icebraining 15y agoYeah, I would've bought a .name if I was confident that people wouldn't be confused. On the other hand, I don't quite see the purpose of a new TLD for websites, it's pretty clear that nobody types URLs anymore. Sure, it's a new namespace, so you can choose the name you want, but on the other hand, colliding with a .com can cause confusion in searches, so I wouldn't risk it.
- rawsyntax 15y agofrom what I understand, they type the url into google search
- masnick 15y agoYour URL has to at least contain your company name. If it doesn't, your customers would be confused by your email addresses and what popped up in the address bar when they use Google to find your website.
- wmf 15y agoIt seems like foo.app would be better than getfoo.com or fooapp.com style names that people are already using.
- sjs 15y agoDo you think this is largely a North American phenomenon where .com is king of everything, commercial or not? In most other countries people are not only familiar with but embrace their own country's TLD.