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this, .com domains are an ego thing more than anything at this point. Why waste valuable money on a vanity thing rather than trying to fuel growth? I guess in the worst case somebody could try to trick potential customers but otherwise as an early startup you have bigger things to worry about than a domain name

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They are artificially necessary in some cases.

I have a personal .com and a gTLD based domain. THis is mostly to retain control of mailflow (I use workspace but can always move it, and have in the past)

The number of services/online forms that wont accept a .email domain is still very high.

I would imagine at a business level this would be equally difficult, even if its just for B2B type transactions/relationships.

Can confirm. My .email is regularly reject even by my own country administration.

That is indeed true for gTLDs (I've experienced it with .online), but from my experience never the case for ccTLDs. Maybe .tk that is (or was) handed out for free, but I never had any problem with ccTLDs I've owned (.me, .dj, .sh).

So, .com isn't the only silver bullet, and from what I can tell from that chart, only .app and .tech may be somewhat affected.

.in is rejected by discover for email address, its a cctld. .us was fine.

interesting. Just registered a couple ccTLD's.

I have a .com. But its super long and I dont really like it. Its also the primary domain in workspace since i have had it since gsuite was free but before they closed the free tier registration ~2012.

Now that I'm a paid user (by forced attrition) im looking to honestly just migrate the TLD of the workspace to something less cumbersome to type.

.email is really the primary at this point.

Same. I have a .family domain which is great, but about 1/3rd of the registration flows claim it’s an “invalid email address”. I have an older .org to fall back on, but it would be nice to use one domain for everything.

Imagine spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to get your own TLD and then discovering that "username@tld" emails just won't be accepted by basically anything. RIP username@google :(

This. Discover bank literally said email ending with .in is not a valid email. As if no Indian moves to US & still keeps his own domain.in email address. It happily accepted .us email.

getting a .com means there s less chance of it being trademarked also. and it's not that hard to come up with a decent name that's not taken (eg. airbnb)

Why choose a name that's unavailable? pretty much every tech company has a weird .com name, and that's fine

No, it's not ego. Normal non-tech people are untrusting of anything not .com

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