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Yeah. Also, if your TLD belongs to somewhere with a less than stable government, who knows if they'll just stop caring about you. And, a portion of your users
by lotyrin 14y ago
Yeah. Also, if your TLD belongs to somewhere with a less than stable government, who knows if they'll just stop caring about you.
And, a portion of your users will always try to go to whatever.com instead of whatev.er, the worst part is you have no idea how many, but the guy that's parked the domain probably does. As you grow your business, traffic to the .com domain will only increase, you'll eventually want to buy it but whoever owns it will know they've got your balls in a vice, and you'll have no idea if it's even worth it (except by their word).
It's fine for certain types of businesses (especially those consumed by machines or the people who love them). Sites with eyes for mass appeal should probably try to come up with a memorable-yet-unique .com.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoE.g.: bit.ly became bitly.com, although that seems like a branding decision (with the whole "social link discovery site" thing)
- phillmv 14y agoAlso, Libya.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoYes, the Qaddafi association probably isn't doing them any favours.
- laconian 14y agoThe Libyan government barred foreign parties from owning domain names of three letters or less.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agobit.ly still works though...?
- bigiain 14y agoDoes anyone know what sort of money that cost them? I suspect some domaineer was very happy that day… (we blew $11k for the .com version of a .com.au domain we'd started to succeed with 6 or 7 years back. Ultimately futile, but not really related to that expense…)