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I thought .dev and .app would be more popular actually. The rapid increase in .ai makes sense though.
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Bingo. either you bough a .com a while ago or you have to pay a lot. A while ago we had the .ly domains. Now .ai. Things change depending on "fashion" if you can call it that.
Oh god my company just switched to .io and that was a huge PITA. I hope we don't go .ai...
> YC startups are abandoning .com They are not "abandoning" .com domains. They are just really hard to find available or cheap enough to buy, so they launch with something else instead! .com will always be king
Maybe. Still wild to find startups getting millions can’t afford to buy a .com domain
I wouldn't call this 'abandoning .com' though
it's basically still .com dominated with a good chunk .ai
and I guess the ones with good .com are keeping the .com
Anything other than a .com for a commercial site screams gimmick and immediately strips away most of its credibility. Go .com or go home.
> YC startups are abandoning .com They are not "abandoning" .com domains. They are just really hard to find available or cheap enough to buy, so they launch with something else instead! .com will always be king
Maybe. Still wild to find startups getting millions can’t afford to buy a .com domain
I thought .dev and .app would be more popular actually. The rapid increase in .ai makes sense though.
From personal experience .dev is a little weird. For one thing its on the HSTS preload list, enforcing https. You cannot make a http://... request to a .dev domain from most browsers. I found this out the hard way after trying to use .dev for... development.
.ai is the new .io but nothing will beat .com. Even Paul Graham has said that.