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I never deal with co.xx to be honest. Most websites I visit are on ccTLDs. Whenever I see a .com link to any local business, I start out by assuming it's a scam

I never deal with co.xx to be honest. Most websites I visit are on ccTLDs. Whenever I see a .com link to any local business, I start out by assuming it's a scam website. That said, .app has found plenty of adoption. Tech companies absolutely love .io and .ai is now also gaining popularity. The good American URLs have all been bought years ago so people flock to ccTLDs and gTLDs for new products and businesses. Even .engineering has a few interesting businesses on it these days. As for .sucks, it's clearly a cash grab, but banning it hardly solves a problem. ycombinatorsucks.com is a lot cheaper than ycombinator.sucks, and if ycombinator pre-emptively buys ycombinatorsucks.com, you could just buy ycombinatorisshit.com or ycombinatorisadoodoohead.com.

Symbiote 2y ago
This is very regional. .co.xx is common in Britain (.co.uk), Japan (.co.jp), New Zealand (.co.nz) and probably others. It's perfectly legitimate for a site linked to those countries.
- craigds 2y ago
  NZ didn't allow registration of raw .nz domains until 2014 so anything registered before that was a .co.nz or similar. It's still more common than .nz due to inertia / muscle memory I guess. I get weird looks when I give people my (name).nz email address - usually people ask if I meant .co.nZ
  - cesarb 2y ago
    BR went the other way. Registration of raw .br domains used to be allowed for universities, but AFAIK other than grandfathered registrations it's no longer allowed (new registrations have to use .edu.br). My suspicion is that it was due to abuse; a long time ago, I noticed some university had registered IIRC .co.br (our correct equivalent to the .com gTLD is .com.br; this is a notable exception to the assertion above that "I rarely find a reputable business that is using anything but .com or .co.XX as the primary domain", since plenty of reputable businesses use .com.br as their primary domain, not .co.br which doesn't exist).

Symbiote 2y ago

This is very regional. .co.xx is common in Britain (.co.uk), Japan (.co.jp), New Zealand (.co.nz) and probably others. It's perfectly legitimate for a site linked to those countries.

craigds 2y ago
NZ didn't allow registration of raw .nz domains until 2014 so anything registered before that was a .co.nz or similar. It's still more common than .nz due to inertia / muscle memory I guess. I get weird looks when I give people my (name).nz email address - usually people ask if I meant .co.nZ
- cesarb 2y ago
  BR went the other way. Registration of raw .br domains used to be allowed for universities, but AFAIK other than grandfathered registrations it's no longer allowed (new registrations have to use .edu.br). My suspicion is that it was due to abuse; a long time ago, I noticed some university had registered IIRC .co.br (our correct equivalent to the .com gTLD is .com.br; this is a notable exception to the assertion above that "I rarely find a reputable business that is using anything but .com or .co.XX as the primary domain", since plenty of reputable businesses use .com.br as their primary domain, not .co.br which doesn't exist).