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	by pavon 1376 days ago
	What is the secondary meaning that causes people to choose the .so domain? I get .tv, .ai and finishing the spelling of a word using a ccTLD, but I never understood why people where using so (other than local businesses). Whenever I see them my general impression is one of (a) I'm not hip enough to get this reference, mixed with (b) that company was so desperate to find a good domain name they resorted to registering an obscure TLD in a war-torn third world country.

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I’m curious the answer to this too.

I always think of .so shared object files, which is a cool nerdy association.. but that can’t be it right?

It looks like there is no special meaning, at least not for Notion [1]:

> We chose .so when we were starting out (lots of other companies named Notion, and .so was available).

¯\_(ツ)_/¯