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Do .com domains still matter? Especially expensive "good" ones? Does a mortgage company really need to be known as "better.com"? Does a screen recorder really need to be known as "loom.com"? Yes these are short and expensive English words, but they are also unintuitive and honestly as a result unmemorable. There are times I see a company with englishword.com and it has nothing to do with their company and therefore I can't remember it. Lemonade.com? Oh yeah, insurance.


Domain name requirements depend on your customer base and the business that you're in (eg, enterprise software, crypto, or developer tools? completely different expectations). There are no general rules


Does choice of TLD affect SEO? Some articles claim it shouldn't matter, but I do wonder if less common TLDs get penalized.




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