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vadfa | 4 years ago

The stupidity of thinking what "the best TLD for your startup" is.

In the meantime all respectable startups and big companies use .com like normal people.

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tyingq|4 years ago

That's an odd comment to me. Different TLDs have different pricing, different restrictions, and so on. Giving the topic some thought isn't stupid. And .com is a pretty crowded namespace.

vadfa|4 years ago

>different pricing

.com is the cheapest

>different restrictions

.com has the fewest

Anything else?

Yeri|4 years ago

Likely because 'respectable startups' (with money) can afford to buy the .com.

https://www.arbo.works/ is a new, and very respected startup. They don't have a .com (yet).

vadfa|4 years ago

Discord couldn't afford to buy discord.com, so they bought discordapp.com. They didn't think of buying discord.io or discord.app or some crap like that.

junon|4 years ago

Ah yes, branding is "stupid" now. Gotcha.

efdee|4 years ago

I think the GPs point is that anything other than .com is stupid branding. Not that branding is stupid.

throwaway2077|4 years ago

yeah, and that's the reason why most of them have stupid names