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A domain can look good when starting a site, but traffic, branding, and user trust may tell another story after launch. What experience made you choose domains differently for new projects?

A low first-year domain price can make it easy to start a new project. But if many domains in an extension are not renewed, it may show that people tested ideas and moved on. For web projects, do you care about a TLD's renewal strength before choosing it?

For content sites, tools, or directories, would you still use the plural .com if the singular .com is already active? Sometimes the plural fits the project better. But would users still remember or trust the singular first?

Evan.com was reportedly sold for $400,000 on July 22. A first-name .com is not a keyword domain, but it can feel clean, short, and brandable. For web projects or creator-led platforms, would this type of domain help trust, or is the price only meaningful to domain investors?

.WEB has finally moved forward after a $135 million auction and almost 10 years of disputes. It sounds suitable for tools, communities, SaaS, content sites, and web services. Would you build a serious project on a good .WEB domain? Or would you wait until pricing and renewals are clear?

.CO has been globally available for 16 years and now has more than 3.3 million registrations. There are big reported sales like O.co at $350,000 and ETH.co at $300,000, but those are rare domains. Would you build a serious content site, tool, or startup project on a strong .CO? Or would you...

Webmasters often collect domains for future projects. Some get used, but many just keep renewing every year. Would you rather keep one strong domain for a serious project, or many average domains for different ideas?

Travel topics can grow quickly when a small destination starts trending online. A village, island, attraction, or regional travel keyword may look small today but become useful later. Would you build a content site around that kind of domain? Or is it too uncertain unless the destination...

.de passing 18 million registrations shows that some local extensions still have strong trust. For a content site or small online project, would you rather use a mature ccTLD or a newer gTLD? Is local trust more useful than having a more flexible extension?

Event traffic can be huge for a short time. One reported domain flip went from about $13 to $1,500. But the wrong event wording can also bring trademark trouble. fifa.plus was listed for $3,999, and fifa2022.com was reportedly offered for EUR 150,000 before both ended up in WIPO cases. Would...

Some domains are bought for projects, SEO, branding, or resale. Then nothing happens for years. No traffic, no offers, no active site. What makes you still renew one instead of dropping it?

Many sites use resellers for hosting, domains, DNS, or email. When an abuse report comes in, the actual issue is not always the domain itself. It could be hosting, mail sending, DNS records, or website content. What process works best: contact the reseller or host first, or act directly when...

For some projects, the domain extension explains the topic before the user even opens the site. .casino is very clear for casino reviews, gaming content, affiliate pages, betting information, or entertainment projects. That may help users understand the site faster, but it may also make the...

AI answers are taking more space before normal search results. For guide content, this could matter a lot. DNS, domains, SSL, email setup, hosting docs.... all easy for AI to summarize. Are people already thinking about GEO, or still focused only on classic SEO?

For web projects, I think domain auctions are not always worth the delay. If you are testing a new site, network, or service, you often just need a name that works. Watching an auction or waiting for a seller to reply can slow the project before it even starts. A fixed price may not be the...

When a website suddenly stops loading, the cause is not always the hosting server. It could be DNS resolution, nameserver settings, DNS records, CDN configuration, SSL, browser cache, or the web server itself. In website support cases, checking the domain and DNS setup early can often save...

Recent discussion around .IN reminded me that some country-code domains are not as simple as buying a .com. They may have local expectations, different transfer processes, or special terms. For people running sites or client projects, do you check these rules first?

Father's Day is coming up, and I was thinking about online projects. If you had to pass one online asset to your kids or family in the future, what would it be? A domain, a traffic site, a file hosting project, an email list, a brand, a content site, a SaaS tool, or something else? The...

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Maybe this topic is a little late, but I still wanted to open a separate thread and see what others think. .si is getting attention, but I do not think sales alone tell the full story yet. For me, the more interesting part would be seeing more real websites using .si as the main domain. I...