store.phantom.glass

[othertomperson]

Do you remember the old days when you could tell what was a URL or not by looking at it? I hadn't given any thought to the top-level domain re-jigging that happened but... eh I really don't like this haha

[dadasmithywinkle]

Do you remember the old days when you could tell what was a URL or not by looking at it? I hadn't given any thought to the top-level domain re-jigging that happened but... eh I really don't like this haha

Woah that's odd. 

[AlwaysFSX]

Yeah.. .coms are so nice.

[Gr8White_Bear]

I miss that feeling when everything made sense.

[Dude]

I miss that feeling when Phantom Glass makes stuff FOR GALAXY NOTE 3s!

[marat569]

you say you can't tell your friend on the phone to go to "store.com/index.php?item=1fr45q?sec=1f562z?1231?hb?z?runningoutofphpshit/buy"

 

seams simple enough, just say it out really slowly

[othertomperson]

you say you can't tell your friend on the phone to go to "store.com/index.php?item=1fr45q?sec=1f562z?1231?hb?z?runningoutofphpshit/buy"

 

seams simple enough, just say it out really slowly

 

store.phantomglass.com? Anything that gives the indication to someone who knows nothing about this that it is in fact a URL at just a glance. I even miss the http:// tbh. I've found myself going back to typing that since otherwise Chrome just fucking googles it instead of navigating to the subdomain.

[marat569]

store.phantomglass.com? Anything that gives the indication to someone who knows nothing about this that it is in fact a URL at just a glance. I even miss the http:// tbh. I've found myself going back to typing that since otherwise Chrome just fucking googles it instead of navigating to the subdomain.

 

"store.phantom.glass" is efficient and elegant for tech people (probably the demographic that they're selling to anyway)

 

for tech noobs/grandmas obviously that wont be the best url since they'll just google google.com anyway, so phantomglass.com would be better, the store sub domain is useless imo.

 

how did the .glass TLD get licensed in the first place? .com .net for commercial, .org .edu for research, .gov for us gov shit; everything else is either trying to be cleaver with country TLD's, like youtu.be

[othertomperson]

"store.phantom.glass" is efficient and elegant for tech people (probably the demographic that they're selling to anyway)

 

for tech noobs/grandmas obviously that wont be the best url since they'll just google google.com anyway, so phantomglass.com would be better, the store sub domain is useless imo.

 

how did the .glass TLD get licensed in the first place? .com .net for commercial, .org .edu for research, .gov for us gov shit; everything else is either trying to be cleaver with country TLD's, like youtu.be

 

It's not even about noobs tbh. You have to know it's a URL prior to your encounter with it to recognise it as such. You can be the most arrogant self-appointed "tech genius" around, and not notice a URL that doesn't appear to adhere to any kind of convention. It's just bad design.