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August 20, 2015

Dump the .com? Not-coms are trending

  • Expect to see more of them after Google's announcement last week that its new parent company, Alphabet, will have a website address of abc.xyz.
    • By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
    AP Business Writer

    NEW YORK — Did the website address you just went to really end with “.vegas” instead of “.com”?

    It's not a mistake. Companies, organizations and people are starting to forsake the familiar “.com” and “.org” Internet address suffixes, using instead hundreds of new ones like “.legal,” “.restaurant,” “.solutions,” “.movie” and “.nyc” that have been coming on the market since early 2014. Some U.S. companies have started using suffixes that previously were used in other countries or territories, such as Puerto Rico's “.pr.” Others are catching up to a handful like “.jobs” and “.travel” that became available a decade ago.


     
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