People used to spend hours to customize their phone backgrounds and desktop backgrounds and myspace profiles, then came the big guys and now everyone uses the defaults and all webpages look alike.

Getting a non-.com domain is like that, it seems amateurish and somewhat unprofessional. There are .com domains if one is willing to be creative and settle for something that is not a simple dictionary word . The length doesnt matter as long as the word is reasonably memorable. 'facebook' and 'instagram' and 'snapchat' did not have a problem with their name. If they 'd gone for face.book, instagr.am snap.chat etc people would be confused "how do i access this site". The dot is not part of our mental dictionary.

Some of them look even dangerous. for example MS onedrive links are from "1drv.ms " which makes my emails look like phishing scams.