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With all the new generic top-level domains out there like .biz .blog .pro even .ooo (a personal favorite lol), and a whole bunch more coming out next year, I'm surprised there's still a mad gold rush for .com domains. I was just telling my kids how domain squatting was a thing back in the 90's and early 2000's, but I guess I stand corrected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...

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Most users are able to identify example.com as a URL but not example.gq because they have been trained for years to look for .com

This training will take some more time for other TLDs and will take more time to become normal.

Even now, companies that start with a strange TLD but grow large enough will eventually buy the .com which repeats the cycle that only .com is legit for commercial services.

Anyone know of popular companies in the USA that don’t use .com?

Zoom.us

Twitch.tv

BoingBoing.net

Chorus.ai

ABC.xyz

This is a great list! Twitch.tv is #31 according to Alexa!

One thing to point out, is that 4 of those are country-specific TLDs (or the historic .net) which have been around for awhile so they might still have some familiarity.

It starts to look very unfamiliar to non-tech people when URLs have a long TLD, such as:

example.blog

example.website

example.foundation

example.engineering

example.international

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