{"id":3059,"date":"2015-02-10T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T15:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2015-02-10T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T15:45:59","slug":"do-you-need-the-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2015\/02\/10\/do-you-need-the-com","title":{"rendered":"Do you need the .com?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional wisdom says you need to have the .com in a domain name. Nowadays its backed by the fact that you have the .com easily available on your mobile phone\u2019s popup keyboard as well.<\/p>\n<p>But lately I\u2019ve seen some quality sites launch and they don\u2019t have the .com\u2019s to go with it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleworld.today\/\">AppleWorld.Today<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/\">Fusion.net<\/a>. In the past, let\u2019s not forger <a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/\">&lt;re\/code&gt;<\/a> from the AllThingsD folk at Wall Street Journal (also, .net). You\u2019ve always had John Gruber\u2019s Daring Fireball in the .net-namespace.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe you don\u2019t need the .com and you\u2019ll do just fine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to travel to places like Iceland where its common to see domains with .is. They\u2019re happy using their country code top level domains (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top-level_domain\">TLDs<\/a>). It parts of Barcelona, its quite common to see .cat.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional wisdom says you need to have the .com in a domain name. Nowadays its backed by the fact that you have the .com easily available on your mobile phone\u2019s popup keyboard as well. But lately I\u2019ve seen some quality sites launch and they don\u2019t have the .com\u2019s to go with it. AppleWorld.Today. Fusion.net. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1306],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-domain-names"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Nl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}