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People can't remember them, so they go to Google and accept whatever Google returns.

Ditto.

It's the case in China, that's one the thing that I really didn't expect when I went there, you had giant ads on building with 2038-232-423.cn (that's just random numbers, but you get the idea).

I’ve never been to China, but it appears numbers are chosen over letters for ease of memorization, and are not always random digits: https://gizmodo.com/why-do-chinese-urls-use-numbers-not-lett...

I do get the feeling having a domain is almost more about TLS than the name these days