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by nichochar 499 days ago
Reasoning:

.com is the best TLD by a long shot but it's really saturated, so as a startup you have no chance.

As you say, the hope is to make it and be able to buy the X in getX.com where hopefully you've checked that X belongs to a squatter and not an existing company (they're both bad the latter is worse).