[stickfigure]

I would avoid all of the two-letter domain names. I suffered 8 hours of excruciating downtime back in 2012 when the .st nic went down:

https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...

I learned my lesson, I'll take the .com every time, even if I have to get creative with the name.

[codetrotter]

> I would avoid all of the two-letter domain names

Here in Europe all of the national TLDs for countries I can think of off the top of my head are two letter TLDs, and will be regarded as trustworthy in their respective countries.

.no .se .dk .fi .fr .it .de .ch .at .pl .es .sk and so on and so forth

[InCityDreams]

Gov.uk - love it. .co.uk - always smelled of cheap, second hand, gaudy.

[eftychis]

ccTLDs are two letter correct. Avoiding two letter TLDs is non-practical. If you focus on the local market just take your country's TLD.

[fsckboy]

I certainly trust those and globally, cuz "in their respective countries" is not a high enough bar

[ransom1538]

There is always therelateteam.com

[echelon]

.ai and .io are hot commodities, though, and I've never once had problems with either.

Looking at the ample existential evidence, both startups and VCs love these two TLDs.

[youssefabdelm]

What about longer ones like .voyage? Do you know if they suffer from the same issues?

[popcalc]

You're in for a fun time if the company responsible for those gTLDs goes belly up and fails to pay their ICANN dues.