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What is the trendiest generic top level domain?

• coreyp_1 12y ago
  .io
• smt88 12y ago
  It was .ly, then it became .co, and now it's .io. Note, though, that the implicit "I/O" reference in .io means that it's more often used for products aimed at a technical audience. So as a replacement for .com, I'm not really sure what the frontrunner is now. A few other trends that are similarly related to the .com shortage: adding "get" to the beginning of the domain or "app"/"hq" to the end. We're probably at the end of the "everyone wants a .com/.co/.io" era though. People will start to use TLDs that have semantic value ("beer.club" instead of "beerclubapp.com" for example)
  • niche 12y ago
    Nice, thanks, how do you know this? Is there data that backs this up? Would be a cool interactive infographic...
    • bramgg 12y ago
      > Is there data that backs this up? Would be a cool interactive infographic... Not definitive, and only targets a small part of what smt88 said, but scroll to the bottom: http://www.bram.gg/post/analyzing-hacker-news http://www.bram.gg/post/analyzing-hacker-news