I always read FAQ as "eff-aye-que." Relatedly, I recently saw an HN comment with the line "an .edu," referring to the TLD, and at first took it as a grammatical error since I pronounced the "." as "dot" in my head rather than dropping it as the author intended. Then I realised I was pronouncing the whole thing as "an dot ee-dee-you," whereas I would naturally think of ".com" as "dot com." I'm not sure why, but I think one possibility is that the recent proliferation of .io domains has made me think of other less common TLDs as the sum of their constituent letters rather than as fragments of words. Another possibility is that less common TLDs need to be spelled out for people in normal parlance more frequently. Yet, I'm pretty sure I've been thinking of the recently added ".dev" TLDs as "dot dev," not "dot dee-ee-vee," perhaps specifically because I've never had to spell it out for somebody in speech? Or maybe because we use "dev" as a standalone word already, as in "dev house?" I dunno. It would be interesting to see a survey of how different people naturally pronounce acronyms and word-fragment-TLDs like this.