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Outside of the tech field everything but a .com is viewed negatively. When I worked for clients they used to really push hard for a .com. They'd rather have a

Outside of the tech field everything but a .com is viewed negatively. When I worked for clients they used to really push hard for a .com. They'd rather have a 25 character .com than use anything else. My guess is that they only trust .com.

MisterBastahrd 12y ago
Well, dot net has a historical connotation to being used by companies that shared a name with a larger, more reputable company and dot org is for charities. Dot com is simply what people are most likely to remember. This doesn't matter so much if all you're doing is running a mobile app, but when you've got a site to worry about, the domain extension matters.
cldellow 12y ago
Photographers are also open to alternative domains. Our company had to change its name early in its existence. When we were explaining it to some photographers we work with, they were surprised that we didn't go with .co or .photography (shudder). .com is simple and guaranteed to work. By that I mean both with humans (who just assume '.com' is the thing that goes in the location bar) and with computers (Interac e-transfers, a way of moving money in Canada by sending to an email address, don't work with .photography domains).
crucialfelix 12y ago
also .io will seem pretty dated in a few years. its okay for conferences and dev related things, but I wouldn't start a business on it now.
- ryanSrich 12y ago
  It depends. For new tech startups it's becoming the standard and until your market expands beyond tech I feel like .io is fine.
  - crucialfelix 12y ago
    regardless, it will sound outdated in a few years. its not based on what is currently fashionable. its not a name you should give your company if you want to last say 10 or 50 years in germany there are all these companies called 24 like http://www.immobilienscout24.de/ http://www.immobilienscout24.de/ because back in the 90s this was the trendy german website thing. now it just sounds silly
    - crucialfelix 12y ago
      just in case it isn't clear: the 24 means "open 24 hours a day" - which is pretty exciting in a country where supermarkets are closed on sundays

MisterBastahrd 12y ago

Well, dot net has a historical connotation to being used by companies that shared a name with a larger, more reputable company and dot org is for charities. Dot com is simply what people are most likely to remember. This doesn't matter so much if all you're doing is running a mobile app, but when you've got a site to worry about, the domain extension matters.

cldellow 12y ago

Photographers are also open to alternative domains. Our company had to change its name early in its existence. When we were explaining it to some photographers we work with, they were surprised that we didn't go with .co or .photography (shudder). .com is simple and guaranteed to work. By that I mean both with humans (who just assume '.com' is the thing that goes in the location bar) and with computers (Interac e-transfers, a way of moving money in Canada by sending to an email address, don't work with .photography domains).

crucialfelix 12y ago

also .io will seem pretty dated in a few years. its okay for conferences and dev related things, but I wouldn't start a business on it now.

ryanSrich 12y ago
It depends. For new tech startups it's becoming the standard and until your market expands beyond tech I feel like .io is fine.
- crucialfelix 12y ago
  regardless, it will sound outdated in a few years. its not based on what is currently fashionable. its not a name you should give your company if you want to last say 10 or 50 years in germany there are all these companies called 24 like http://www.immobilienscout24.de/ http://www.immobilienscout24.de/ because back in the 90s this was the trendy german website thing. now it just sounds silly
  - crucialfelix 12y ago
    just in case it isn't clear: the 24 means "open 24 hours a day" - which is pretty exciting in a country where supermarkets are closed on sundays