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I've never really thought about it until now but I don't think I'd even pay for a service on .ly et al even if it was using stripe/PayPal

Maybe I'm just getting old but the .com wins it for me, at an absolute push for online services I'll trust a .net

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.ly is particularly bad because Lybia's maintenance is a real risk.

What about https:\\ though?

It's trivial to get a cert for HTTPS. That doesn't tell me if the people behind the site are trustworthy, security conscious or going to be around in a year's time

I know that the dotcom doesn't do that either, it's not a rational thing - just a thing

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