YC startups are abandoning .com

> YC startups are abandoning .com

They are not "abandoning" .com domains. They are just really hard to find available or cheap enough to buy, so they launch with something else instead!

.com will always be king

.com is evergreen but it's more and more difficult to get good .com names

I wouldn't call this 'abandoning .com' though

it's basically still .com dominated with a good chunk .ai

and I guess the ones with good .com are keeping the .com

.st is cool because they allow US-legal content and it's pretty cheap. I don't think it will be popular with companies but I like it for personal sites.

.ai is the new .io but nothing will beat .com. Even Paul Graham has said that.

Is non .com/.org, and hyphens still haram? I registered a new domain last week; I went with non-hyphenated .com. More verbose than ideal, but I chose based on my previous understanding.

I remember .ly was a thing for a while, then the tech companies would do *ly.com instead.

If you take .ai out of it, .com is still dominant.

They will certainly buy the .com once they reach a certain level of stability.

I thought .dev and .app would be more popular actually. The rapid increase in .ai makes sense though.

Anything other than a .com for a commercial site screams gimmick and immediately strips away most of its credibility. Go .com or go home.

I never thought domains are actually uper important for startups. .com was always cool, then ther was an .io madness, never liked it, still go with .com or .co

At the end of the day, .com will still remain the most valuable and all startups will grow up into buying a .com