Ask HN: How do you choose TLD?

13 points·xcoding··8 comments

Also if you want to have some fun:

Thanks for the mention, I'm one of the folks who operates Domainr.

A few years back we added support for all the new gTLDs, and rev'd our suggestion algorithm to somewhat-intelligently include relevant new gTLDs in the search results. It's a great way to discover TLDs.

(according to our TLD page — https://domainr.com/about/tlds — there are 1700+ currently, though many are "brand" TLDs which aren't generally available for registration)

Our Favorites page — https://domainr.com/about/favorites — is also a fun place to see examples of people doing creative work with new TLDs.

.com - For profit organization

.org - Non-profit organization

.io - Fancy tech company

don't forget the Canadian's .eh

(I know it's .ca but come on)

I pick .com for everything. .net for network related things but only associated with the .com (CDN cookieless domains, etc).

I'm ok with .tv and .io domains for specific things.

.[country code] for localized content regardless of what it is

.com - For selling stuff

.net - Communities / free services

.io - for dev and html5 game stuff

.eu - for internal tools/apps. Short, cheep, easy to pronounce.

.global,.design, .[other new fancy] - for cool sounding domain and tld pair.

.org when projects seem sufficiently serious

.xyz when it's an alpha, beta or testing project

.com when it's meant for silly or stupid things

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