These 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 do

These 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