I once worked for a company that had a .company gTLD but not the .com It was als...

merelysounds · 2026-06-10T08:09:58 1781078998

> Every reasonable variation of the company name as a .com/.net/.org was taken, including <companyname>company.com

Even then it seems better to come up with a different prefix, or suffix (or both!), just to stay with ‘.com’.

Of course hindsight is 20/20 and I did the same, my personal homepage used to have a ‘.xyz’ address.

account42 · 2026-06-10T09:58:47 1781085527

> Every reasonable variation of the company name as a .com/.net/.org was taken, including <companyname>company.com

That also means that customers WILL confuse your company with others in non-domain contexts so perhaps it's a good idea to choose a more unique company name.