The pricing of .com domains is extremely uneven, depending on your name. It could be $20.
> legitimacy and prestige
Since it’s semantically equivalent to other TLDs, it lies entirely in the eye of the beholder. This non-.com ickiness seems to be an outdated US-centric perspective, never heard of it elsewhere. The rest of the world are used to other TLDs, and some (say ai, io, app) indicate other positive business values.
> If your company is worth $3B, and your cash position is good, spending 0.01% of your valuation on a dotcom ($300k) is a no brainer.
So an established company should switch domain name and you’re not factoring in the cost of that? Or they should just have the .com on the side (but then how will the majority of your customers know about your state of the art .com domain)? Or should startups buy a $300k domain upfront?
