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`You are at the mercy of your TLD’s owner. Many TLDs used in domain hacks are located in unstable or business-unfriendly countries. Why add unnecessary risk?`
by nicholassmith 15y ago
`You are at the mercy of your TLD’s owner. Many TLDs used in domain hacks are located in unstable or business-unfriendly countries. Why add unnecessary risk?`
What, unlike all the really, really positive stories we've heard about the U.S. seizing .com domains for businesses outside the U.S.?
- keiferski 15y agoFair enough, but I trust the US government more than Libya, even if both can be unreliable.
- nicholassmith 15y agoWhich is true, but the argument is the custom TLDs are unreliable due to internal politics whereas .com should be safer, except with the rise of media lobbying etc potentially it's just as fragile. But I do actually agree with the rest of the article, fancy TLDs look nice but they're inherently risky and for a large chunk of the non-nerd market once you get past .com (or the TLD for the country) they're in uncomfortable territory.
- kaolinite 15y agoOne thing to add here is that the non-nerd market often will not use the address bar at all so it arguably doesn't matter if you're .com, .net or .ly - as long as you're high up in Google. I've asked clients to type an address into the URL bar and they've typed it into Google - can take a while to debug issues like that!