Sorry, can you expand on that? Are you saying that most people would consider .com to be less cranky than .org? Can you explain that? My gut reaction when I see something that is potentially crank is that a .org is more likely to have multiple people behind it whereas a .com is likely to be whatever some person bought. Moreover, there’s a definite tendency for cranks to be a few years behind the times in regards to website design, so the popularity of .com addresses in the late 90s also comes into play.
I’d wager most people wonder wtf .org is all about and why it’s not a .com like all the others. But then again those people are not the ones that are gonna wind up at the site. So I find it most likely you two are just imagining two different sets of ‘most people’.
I suspect that for most people it has the opposite effect, if any.
Sorry, can you expand on that? Are you saying that most people would consider .com to be less cranky than .org? Can you explain that? My gut reaction when I see something that is potentially crank is that a .org is more likely to have multiple people behind it whereas a .com is likely to be whatever some person bought. Moreover, there’s a definite tendency for cranks to be a few years behind the times in regards to website design, so the popularity of .com addresses in the late 90s also comes into play.
I’d wager most people wonder wtf .org is all about and why it’s not a .com like all the others. But then again those people are not the ones that are gonna wind up at the site. So I find it most likely you two are just imagining two different sets of ‘most people’.