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slig · 2011-06-09 13:48:54

Their domain is .com, isn't it?

larrys | karma 8297 | avg karma 2.24 · | 2014-05-06 22:37:21+00:00

Yet they use a .com for their own domain.

arbuge | karma 6281 | avg karma 4.07 · | 2023-11-26 08:51:22

Well, they do have the .com domain, so maybe an exception applies here.

dcosson | karma 1766 | avg karma 4.16 · | 2015-08-10 20:59:57+00:00

Crazy they picked a name where they don't own the .com

icebraining | karma 48925 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2012-06-21 13:15:09

.com was for companies originally. It's been a long time since that was true.

JetSpiegel | karma 3479 | avg karma 1.41 · | 2016-07-09 22:48:35

But they don't even have the .com domain...

anoncake | karma 1589 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2020-01-26 17:27:26+00:00

It's a top level domain, not one in the .com namespace.

seekingcharlie | karma 215 | avg karma 0.87 · | 2022-10-12 19:43:29

The vast majority of domain names are .com - it’s a fair assumption to make, isn’t it?

Kye | karma 8088 | avg karma 2.06 · | 2021-08-06 14:28:07

They're a monopoly on .com. Reasonable or not, .com is still widely seen as more authoritative than other TLDs, even .net and .org.

sleno | karma 156 | avg karma 1.95 · | 2024-05-23 15:16:23

Thanks for letting me know, forgot about that. Will try to find a domain that uses .com

djsumdog | karma 25432 | avg karma 4.23 · | 2020-10-11 16:24:52+00:00

.com is managed by VeriSign, a US company. For better or worse, that is the world we live in.

But to be honest, with all the new TLDs, there's no longer anything really special about the .com/net/org domains anymore.

ertyui | karma 2 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2017-09-03 00:45:44

Domain names, .com

lupire | karma 8318 | avg karma 1.26 · | 2022-12-09 20:37:59

.com is a US TLD, for better or for worse. US got the original "cool" TLD names.

codethief | karma 4183 | avg karma 2.01 · | 2020-03-26 04:03:41+00:00

But do you have the .com domain?

ra | karma 3774 | avg karma 3.66 · | 2008-07-20 14:28:41+00:00

put simply, .com is a brand

ryanlol | karma 5269 | avg karma 1.16 · | 2015-02-18 16:37:17

.com?

LeoPanthera | karma 26644 | avg karma 5.67 · | 2015-12-19 03:49:30+00:00

I haven't used the .com in ages. They have a bunch of domains, I think. .vg springs to mind

too_optimistic | karma 2 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2017-07-11 20:06:18+00:00

Damn. I didn't realize this mattered. I looked outside of .com because it's practically impossible to find a decent domain.

rajacombinator | karma 1045 | avg karma 0.74 · | 2013-12-02 11:12:08+00:00

Thanks I was not aware they used .co