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It’s really strange, and awesome, to see them launch on a .net domain. I have a decent (8 letter) .com with the .net and others to match. I want to build some
by ryan29 3y ago
It’s really strange, and awesome, to see them launch on a .net domain. I have a decent (8 letter) .com with the .net and others to match. I want to build something on the .net, so I hope this builds some awareness for the TLD.
I would love to hear an explanation of why they chose a .net. I always think of it as an OG TLD that throws back to a time when the internet didn’t suck, but I doubt that’s it. Lol.
It can’t be a cost thing, can it?
- s3p 3y agoMaybe because threads.com was taken by another company?
- w-ll 3y agothreads dot net was also taken, clearly from the gp post. I think they (fb/meta) prob reached out to both and the made an offer that couldn't refuse.
- aembleton 3y agoOne of them refused
- rafark 3y agoIt was. But Facebook is worth billions. I’m pretty sure they could afford it. I have no idea why a company with their money and power go with a .net because the .com was taken by some random site. Some people have been theorizing that Facebook will sue them to get the .com. Apparently, Facebook has been using the Threads name before the current owners of the .com, but I don’t know if this is true.
- Supermancho 3y agoThese kinds of assertions puzzle me. .net is almost as valuable as .com right now, and that additional value .com has is dropping over time. Search Engines don't care and people have normalized the extended TLD space since the 2010s, since URLs in general are just scary to non-technical people anyway. Even with an aging (on average) population, we will have all grown up with this mindset. ^thread.net (not threads.net) was a webhost with cheap shared hosting for PHP, Perl, etc in the late 1990s