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I shudder to imagine how much the experiment.com domain must have cost.
by desdiv 11y ago
I shudder to imagine how much the experiment.com domain must have cost.
- trevyn 11y ago$54k :) http://priceonomics.com/how-microryza-acquired-the-domain-experimentcom/ http://priceonomics.com/how-microryza-acquired-the-domain-ex...
- bloaf 11y agoMeanwhile, GivingTo.Science is sitting at $75 Is there a reason people would want to avoid newer domains like .science?
- jonathankoren 11y agoBranding. .com is the top-domain. It's synonymous with Internet companies. Without a traditional TLD, your domain doesn't even look like a domain. Instead it look s like a bunch of random.words.smashed.into.one. (Which coincidentally, is a valid domain.)
- hayksaakian 11y agothere's a story behind it, but the tl:dr is far less than you would think -- a generous scientist basically donated it.
- cindywu123 11y agogood thing we were born lucky 🍀
- ridruejo 11y agoNot as much as you think. There's an interesting story behind it: http://priceonomics.com/how-microryza-acquired-the-domain-experimentcom/ http://priceonomics.com/how-microryza-acquired-the-domain-ex...