33.1% of Venture Startups Don’t Use Dotcoms
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New study indicates increased use of .ai, .app, .tech, & more alternative homepage domain extensionsStartups are always innovating, even when it comes to choosing internet top level domains (TLDs). Increasingly, startups eschew the traditional .com domain extension in favor of more unique and sometimes descriptive TLDs, particularly as the internet has matured and the quantity of available .com domains dwindles.Brex analyzed over 3,000 startups that have applied for its corporate credit card service and found that since 2014, the number of startups choosing TLDs other than .com more than doubled, from 14.7% in 2014 to 33.1% in 2018. In 2014, the most popular domain extensions other than .com were .io, .co, and .net. However, in 2018, reflecting the rise of artificial intelligence within the (...)
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