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Who needs .com? Domains like .vegas, .pr, .nyc are trending

8/20/2015

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Yesterday, an Associated Press Story by Joyce Rosenberg touted the many benefits of using a not-com domain name. Read here or below for the complete story. 

NEW YORK (AP) — Did the website address you just went to really end with ".vegas" instead of ".com"?

It's not a mistake. Companies, organizations and people are starting to forsake the familiar ".com" and ".org" Internet address suffixes, using instead hundreds of new ones like ".legal," ''.restaurant," ''.solutions," ''.movie" and ".nyc" that have been coming on the market since early 2014. Some U.S. companies have started using suffixes that previously were used in other countries or territories, such as Puerto Rico's ".pr." Others are catching up to a handful like ".jobs" and ".travel" that became available a decade ago.

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