Ask HN: In 2018, are consumers warming up to gTLDs?

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In trying to get through the hype that Google search results present for the trailing 6mo of 2017, I'm interested in the HN community perspective on using a gTLD (such as a ".market" for e-commerce) rather than a longer variant as a ".com".

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We have used “.camp” for a summer camp for several years and had no trouble, even in the general market.

I’m mostly concerned about how many letters are in the longer ones.

.barcelona? I mean come on.

If you did analytics on it, did you determine that there were any kind of conversion or trust issues associated with using ".camp"?

We didn’t have a stand-alone website for this before the .camp.

Seweesummer.camp.

I do know that participation is up by 30% over the past three years. I wouldn’t attribute all/much of that to the website, but .camp doesn’t seem to scare folks away.

Part of it too is we are part of a University, so trust issues are mitigated there.

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