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by krainboltgreene 252 days ago
> My first-order heuristic is that legitimate websites tend to get one of the top TLDs (.com/.org, maybe .net/.io)

This is so funny to hear after 18 years in the west coast silicon-valley lead tech industry. All of the app, io, tv, tech, guru, and now ai I've seen and only when it's "coop" does anyone complain.

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I'm pretty sure people have been complaining about weird TLDs for as long as I've been on the internet. .guru, .tech, and .app are all equally untrustworthy to me. I don't recall seeing any .tv websites other than twitch. .io and (only recently) .ai are used often enough that it's contextually plausible a legitimate company would use one of those TLDs as their first choice, but if someone linked to chatgpt.ai or chatgpt.io for example, I'd still assume it's a scam.