It must be noted that this has happened a lot more times if one considers ccTLDs (which are TLDs). In fact, .cs has died twice. Once for Czechoslovakia and once for Serbia-Montenegro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cs
Indeed. Still see advertisement on trucks, etc. that have email address in the dead .yu zone here in Montenegro. It seems that the transition period of 3 years was too short. On the other hand, .su (for Soviet Union) is still active.
people want to go to facebook, so they try facebook.com because .com is the ‘go-to’ for websites.
Probably but in non US countries there is a mix of tlds used. About 50% of websites here will use the ccTLD and there is a good mix of .org and .net used as well as .org.au and .net.au. Also a lot of new websites are using .io and .tv
But like you said, I doubt many people type domains names anymore and just search the website name.
So those who lost their .mcdonalds email addresses are now Old McDonalds?
Back in my day it was just called McDonald’s.
It must be noted that this has happened a lot more times if one considers ccTLDs (which are TLDs). In fact, .cs has died twice. Once for Czechoslovakia and once for Serbia-Montenegro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cs
Indeed. Still see advertisement on trucks, etc. that have email address in the dead .yu zone here in Montenegro. It seems that the transition period of 3 years was too short. On the other hand, .su (for Soviet Union) is still active.
tbh TLD as a concept is as alien to end-users as IP address.
people want to go to facebook, so they try facebook.com because .com is the ‘go-to’ for websites.
Now whenever i want to order pizza i just google “dominoes” so i can sidestep the domain guessing completely.
so google is a second level dns system and it’s how the whole thing should work in the first place
Probably but in non US countries there is a mix of tlds used. About 50% of websites here will use the ccTLD and there is a good mix of .org and .net used as well as .org.au and .net.au. Also a lot of new websites are using .io and .tv
But like you said, I doubt many people type domains names anymore and just search the website name.
I agree.
… in the US.
You don’t search your app store for a “dominoes” app? 😉