Thread: Business Of all the useless TLDs
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Old 06-20-2014, 04:23 AM  
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Originally Posted by MiamiBoyz View Post
If anything I think that eventually dot anything is going away. Let's face it. You type in a word with no dot extension and you get the .com at the top of the listing in most cases with most search engines.

The average JOE only knows .com and is in the habit of typing .com without even thinking about it when putting in a url. That's why they are more valuable and also why .xxx failed.
That's not generally the case for me. A lot depends on the country the surfer is in, the tld of the SE I think also. In most cases for me, if I'm in the UK it is the .co.uk version that comes up top for me. If I am in Japan it is the .co.jp.
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