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<blockquote data-quote="amplify" data-source="post: 2342736" data-attributes="member: 130638"><p>The sentiment that the king of the domain name space is .com has been true ever since I started domaining around 2008. I personally like to keep a good balance of .com, well beyond anything else.</p><h3>Why is .com king?</h3><p>Saw.com has <a href="https://saw.com/blog/domain-acquisitions/why-the-com-is-the-king-of-domains/" target="_blank">a couple of reasons</a> to make their case.</p><p></p><p>They mention history, which .com sure has. It was launched in 1985, a year before the World Wide Web. Along with .com, other top-level domains (TLD) that are descriptive such as .gov and .edu were also released.</p><p></p><p>The second reason mentioned as to why .com is the king of TLDs is memorability. If you are older to be fortunate enough to have a landline in your house and a cheap collect calling plan, you certainly had to memorize an area code, much like you have to memorize a TLD, and they both just became second nature.</p><p></p><p>Of course, much like fat fingering the wrong digits trying to dial grandma on the opposite side of the country, there were hiccups along the way for domains too. One of the most notable was the confusion behind a certain government site that had not-so-family-friendly content on the .com (see: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.com" target="_blank">history of whitehouse.com</a>).</p><p></p><p>There is credibility with .com. It's so widely used and trusted that you almost have full credibility with the first approach from a .com email address over having an obscure gTLD. The article mentions that credibility is essentially inherited from Fortune 500 companies employing .com as their top-level domain of choice (even though some have their own gTLD <a href="https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/amazon.html" target="_blank">like Amazon</a>).</p><p></p><p>A .com domain will get more traffic. They state that more people would be willing to click the .com in search engine results. This is the only area where I will have to disagree and say that any TLD has the opportunity for capturing those clicks for as long as their site provides more value than the .com. On the other hand, and with learned experience, .com does get more traffic when it comes to direct requests/type-ins. I believe that people revert back to memorability and automatically affix .com to a search query and land on a website instead.</p><h3>Do you think .com is king?</h3><p>Why or why not? And, what is the breakdown of your portfolio?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amplify, post: 2342736, member: 130638"] The sentiment that the king of the domain name space is .com has been true ever since I started domaining around 2008. I personally like to keep a good balance of .com, well beyond anything else. [HEADING=2]Why is .com king?[/HEADING] Saw.com has [URL='https://saw.com/blog/domain-acquisitions/why-the-com-is-the-king-of-domains/']a couple of reasons[/URL] to make their case. They mention history, which .com sure has. It was launched in 1985, a year before the World Wide Web. Along with .com, other top-level domains (TLD) that are descriptive such as .gov and .edu were also released. The second reason mentioned as to why .com is the king of TLDs is memorability. If you are older to be fortunate enough to have a landline in your house and a cheap collect calling plan, you certainly had to memorize an area code, much like you have to memorize a TLD, and they both just became second nature. Of course, much like fat fingering the wrong digits trying to dial grandma on the opposite side of the country, there were hiccups along the way for domains too. One of the most notable was the confusion behind a certain government site that had not-so-family-friendly content on the .com (see: [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.com']history of whitehouse.com[/URL]). There is credibility with .com. It's so widely used and trusted that you almost have full credibility with the first approach from a .com email address over having an obscure gTLD. The article mentions that credibility is essentially inherited from Fortune 500 companies employing .com as their top-level domain of choice (even though some have their own gTLD [URL='https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/amazon.html']like Amazon[/URL]). A .com domain will get more traffic. They state that more people would be willing to click the .com in search engine results. This is the only area where I will have to disagree and say that any TLD has the opportunity for capturing those clicks for as long as their site provides more value than the .com. On the other hand, and with learned experience, .com does get more traffic when it comes to direct requests/type-ins. I believe that people revert back to memorability and automatically affix .com to a search query and land on a website instead. [HEADING=2]Do you think .com is king?[/HEADING] Why or why not? And, what is the breakdown of your portfolio? [/QUOTE]
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