[yori]

Off-topic question: I see a lot of new posts coming from .cc websites. What is the appeal that .cc provides? Is it that the content is released under Creative Commons? That's not the case here. What kind of messaging or symbolism or underlying meaning one is aiming for when they are going for a .cc domain?

[hoorayimhelping]

I doubt it has anything to do with the conceptual meaning of .cc and more with the practical consideration that uxdesign.cc was available and much cheaper than the alternatives.

[jfengel]

There are some Creative Commons sites (notable arduino.cc), but mostly it's that .com is basically full, and squatters are sitting on a lot of it. So there's a burst of sites willing to take the hit of being associated with a lower-grade TLD.

Why .cc? I guess because it's familiar-ish. It's easy to hit the "c" twice, and "c" is the first letter of "com".

In this case, uxdesign.com refers to a blog that has lain fallow for a decade. It does no harm sitting there, and it may as well as long as its owner remembers to pay the trivial sum to renew it. But "uxdesign" might as well get new life in some other TLD.