The Most Popular Startup Domain Suffixes

The most eloquent post on domain suffixes to date.

The best riposte to date of Paul Graham’s love of the .com domain suffix:

http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

PG's article is also from 6 years ago. User's views of domains has changed over time as more and more non-.com TLDs become common and simultaneously browser UIs continue to deemphasize the URL.

I'm really fascinated by .xyz suffix and discovered it after seeing Alphabet[0] website. I have used it for my site[1] as well as for my side project[2].

[0]: https://abc.xyz

[1]: https://flashblaze.xyz

[2]: https://notesbin.xyz

The data behind .ly look truncated. I find it hard to believe that registrations came to a hard stop in 2015. I wonder what’s going on?

A lot has happened with that domain name. [0][1][2]

[0] https://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2010/10/the-ly-domain-space-to-...

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2004/04/13/libya_falls_off_net/

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/04/letter-ly-abrupt-ly-loses-...

.ly is the country code domain for Libya. 2015 was a rough year there, and things haven't improved much since.