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“No idea like this had existed, and the domain BuiltWith was somehow not taken already. Gary began building scrapers and his database of technologies.”

I hate this paragraph. It doesn’t mention any domain names but also makes the assumption that com is the only one?



Given that it was the mid-2000s, I think dot com was fairly positive to be the general assumption.

But thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure I clarify in future posts


I’d also avoid capitalizing any part of the domain name.


The vast majority of domain names are .com - it’s a fair assumption to make, isn’t it?


Not at all.


Most companies (and seo experts) vastly prefer .com domains though; wether for valid reasons or not, this still is the case. Squatters make loads of money from companies getting another tld and then later buying the .com.


I get all that. It’s also not a default by any means.

Lots of places around the world do not default to the com domain name and it doesn’t make sense to treat a word without a TLD as a domain name.




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