On 7/6/24 8:06 PM, Robert McKay via NANOG wrote:
On 2024-07-06 21:11, John Von Essen wrote:
Ok…. now a rabbit hole. I looked at some vanity TLDs, and it appears
the ALOT of big companies have their names as TLDs, but almost none of
them are using it for anything. Why is that? Is it just a copyright
play to protect the name from some else taking it?
People aren't used to URLs not ending in .com or possibly their local ccTLD. Anything else looks
suspicious or isn't even recognised as a URL and less people will visit it.
I don't really think this has been true since 2015. These days people recognize "go to A.B" as a
website and happily type it in, I regularly see .xyz or even foreign country codes advertised in the
US (.co, .tv, etc) these days. Ultimately I think finding "the .com" became hard enough that people
just started making due with whatever's available and its all worked itself out.
Matt
