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On the premise that you are expecting your start-up to be a success you should look for another domain and you should register the .com, .net .org .info etc... Besides your application you will be building a brand don't share it with a domain squatter and don't pay for a name over what is reasonable.

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I disagreed with this statement because there are plenty of successful sites that has other dots besides .com. It's all depend on your application. If your application is useful, then people will come. For example, when I registered my website, http://www.mathmaster.org, the .dot com and everything else were taken but now I am still doing ok in term of visitor counts. Majority of my users come from either bookmarked or search engine anyway.

What happens when the domain squatter decide to persuade you (to buy the .com domain) by uploading porn?

Risks should be properly taken care of when building a brand.

I saw that recently on an innocuous kids site. A domain with a different tld, was a hard core porn site. Ouch.

I don't think that was a squatter it was just rather unfortunate. Unless that is a trend?

Re niyazpk's comment on squatters and porn, I have been unpleasantly surprised by the .com version of .other sites that I use.

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