Author Topic: Why no personal finance blogs ending in .fi?  (Read 1647 times)

FrugalSaver

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Why no personal finance blogs ending in .fi?
« on: January 07, 2019, 06:39:46 PM »
Or .re?

Would seem to be a no brainer?

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Re: Why no personal finance blogs ending in .fi?
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2019, 07:10:03 PM »
When people here about a blogger and such it’s easier to guess a website address that ends in .com than anything else.

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Re: Why no personal finance blogs ending in .fi?
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2019, 11:23:57 AM »
plus country domain extensions (FI = Finland) are more expensive...slightly

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Re: Why no personal finance blogs ending in .fi?
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2019, 11:48:19 AM »
I think almost everyone assumes a domain ends with .com
Setting up something else (if you are generally US based) is like asking for traffic not to find you.

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Re: Why no personal finance blogs ending in .fi?
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2019, 11:52:58 AM »
Personally, I would be suspicious of any domain ending in a country code if the content wasn't clearly linked to that country. Most of the time sites that use unusual top-level domains are scammy and/or low quality, IME. Only occasionally do you run into one that's using the expanded TLDs appropriately, and it's even rarer for a re-purposed country code TLD.

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Re: Why no personal finance blogs ending in .fi?
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2019, 11:53:09 AM »
Not an answer to your question, but I wrote my own (manual) finance tracking/reporting software... I think you'll at least sort of appreciate the domain name: https://fi.retorch.com (retorch was a "bigger" idea I never managed to flesh out.)

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Re: Why no personal finance blogs ending in .fi?
« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2019, 03:55:19 PM »
I would be one of those that just automatically assumed it had to end in a .com or .org so i'd shy a way.  but as @neo von retorch showed if it had the word "fired" in it , would a search not at least bring that up. But even then you would have to be familiar with the term like retired our financially independent.