Does TLD matter? Need help for my launch!

I'd love to know if people prefer .com to other TLDs. Place a vote and help a very excited IndieHacker por favor (I'm not spanish, I just loved Money Heist).

Long .com domain name
Short .uk domain name

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Moemin Mamdouh

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on March 10, 2021

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I think it is a tough questions to answer. Personally I think it depends on the product/service. Usually the .com is always better because it is so recognized. The gold standard.

With that being said, I would not try to go with a longer less clean .com if I could get a great non-.com domain. "thedomain.com" vs "domain.com". Having that fluff on there is just less good and less clean.

There are so many great domains out there, I would try to experiment with those too. There are tons and tons of popular sites/services that use these "alternative" domains. Notion.so, honeybadger.io, etc.

nickfrosty

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  Thanks, it's just really hard to tell whether people will remember the longer .com domain vs the shorter .uk one — these are some helpful insights, though.
  
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  Another cool example is log.fm vs probably podcastfollowapp.com ;)
  
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    Hahaha true statement!
    
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Only use .uk if your market is the United Kingdom, Google will think you want to mainly do business there.

I like other global domain extensions like .blog, .cloud, .club though, I think it's a nice opportunity for branding if your target audience understands that's still a domain (I'm biased though, working on a project in this direction).

pha

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