Even before gTLDs, that's why I grabbed .org and didn't worry about .com at all (owned by a Chinese squatter; unused for 14+ years now) org doesn't even make s

Even before gTLDs, that's why I grabbed .org and didn't worry about .com at all (owned by a Chinese squatter; unused for 14+ years now) org doesn't even make sense as "open source", but pretty much every open source project has a .org domain; and since that's what I do, it works well for me. I'm treating mine like a pseudo-TLD and just spamming out CNAMEs of @ for pet projects. Of course, it used to be that an end-user could have the shortest possible domains, just like businesses of "$name.com", but now businesses can drop $25,000/yr on ".$name", which regular people obviously can't. Remains to be seen how much those get used, looks more like everyone wants to buy ".$adjective" gTLDs to resell instead so far.