What is the trendiest generic top level domain?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9158702

by niche • 11 years ago

4 4 11 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

Besides .com .org and all those other mainstays...

Is .club catching steam? Curious

coreyp_1• 11 years ago

.io

smt88• 11 years ago

It was .ly, then it became .co, and now it's .io.

Note, though, that the implicit "I/O" reference in .io means that it's more often used for products aimed at a technical audience. So as a replacement for .com, I'm not really sure what the frontrunner is now.

A few other trends that are similarly related to the .com shortage: adding "get" to the beginning of the domain or "app"/"hq" to the end.

We're probably at the end of the "everyone wants a .com/.co/.io" era though. People will start to use TLDs that have semantic value ("beer.club" instead of "beerclubapp.com" for example)

niche• 11 years ago

Nice, thanks, how do you know this? Is there data that backs this up? Would be a cool interactive infographic...

bramgg• 11 years ago

Is there data that backs this up? Would be a cool interactive infographic...

Not definitive, and only targets a small part of what smt88 said, but scroll to the bottom: http://www.bram.gg/post/analyzing-hacker-news

What is the trendiest generic top level domain?

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