5 - 10 years ago it might have mattered more than now. Now I would say .com is not so important; the reason being that most traffic will come from search engine

5 - 10 years ago it might have mattered more than now. Now I would say .com is not so important; the reason being that most traffic will come from search engines. If you are going to be wasting time looking for a .com domain i would suggest spending this time instead on seo and marketing on your site / application keywords. If you look at all the new startups a lot are using .io, .ly, .st etc; im sure if they make it big a number will start looking at .com domains but for the time being its just not viable if the domain is already taken or squatted.