YC startups are abandoning .com

Grombobulous

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

cakbeslik

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

rvz

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

FlamingMoe

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

vlucas

> 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

the__alchemist

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.

CollinEMac

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

codegeek

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

thm

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

Cider9986

.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.

tosh

.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

CodesInChaos

Which gTLDs are reliable besides the classics (com, net, org,...)? By that I mean that the TLD owner won't screw you over a few years from now, for example by raising prices? I kind of like the idea to use .com for the marketing site, and .app for the actual web-app.

jdw64

.com — in RFC 920, it originally meant 'commercial.' But come to think of it, a lot of recent startups seem to be selling things that aren't really commercial at all. So maybe they're actually heading in the right direction.

cma

"A recent YC startup spent 250k on a domain. I was slightly shocked. But when I asked how much they raised after YC, the answer was 6.5m. So 1/26 of their round. This is the time we live in; one shocking number counterbalances the other." https://x.com/paulg/status/2083628660708561075 Was that a .xyz?