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Both of them sound scammy. Vanity domains and cheap TLDs can be visually attractive but also inherently signify that you can't afford a .com commercial TLD. .co
by talldayo 2y ago
Both of them sound scammy. Vanity domains and cheap TLDs can be visually attractive but also inherently signify that you can't afford a .com commercial TLD. .com domains come with a prestige status, but you can make it look suspicious by creating a long drawn-out name (myathenaai sounds a lot scammier than athena.com).
You should be careful making broad conclusions about things that might not be causally related. The startup scene has a habit of using anecdotal experience as hard evidence of some big takeaway that's often not even true. I won't claim to know the situation any better than you do, but if you were a late-stage startup I would give you the same advice r/domains did.
- brka 2y agoI agree about the second thing and you're right - the post was intentionally a bit clickbaity to stir up discussion. That being said, we genuinely believe our domain had an effect on our reach - it's definitely worth considering the domain choice carefully before settling on one. Thanks for the input - we're a bootstrapped very early stage startup so we do not have the option to go with an expensive .com domain - the .study is the one that made most sense as we are an education platform
- xivi0n 2y agoHey, thanks for the feedback! I'm the co-founder alongside the OP. We've performed some initial testing and captured the users feedback on both domains. After we switched the domain, without any other feature changes we've observed the website analytics and these are the reported numbers. Even other popular options like .co, .net, .ai and so on are over tens of thousands of US dollars, so we had two options, either to change the name or to go with the .study TLD.