YC startups are abandoning .com
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YC startups are abandoning .com
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#2If you take .ai out of it, .com is still dominant.
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#3I never thought domains are actually uper important for startups. .com was always cool, then ther was an .io madness, never liked it, still go with .com or .co
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#4At the end of the day, .com will still remain the most valuable and all startups will grow up into buying a .com
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#5They will certainly buy the .com once they reach a certain level of stability.
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#6> 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
Re: YC startups are abandoning .com
#7If you take .ai out of it, .com is still dominant.
Exactly, and nothing will ever match the "prestige" of .com
.ai is also kind of cool right now but it will probably lose its appeal after some years when everything will become AI and the world will get tired of the term.
But .com is still at the top of the food chain. If you can survive for a few years, raise your series A/B, you will likely have enough money to acquire your sexy single-word .com name.
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#8Is non .com/.org, and hyphens still haram? I registered a new domain last week; I went with non-hyphenated .com. More verbose than ideal, but I chose based on my previous understanding.
I remember .ly was a thing for a while, then the tech companies would do *ly.com instead.
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#9> 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
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.
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#10> 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