Most people (even geeks) use google to find a site they don't remember the exact url for, and google does a very good job at finding that url, regardless if there is a .com with the same name.
Eg. searching for 'python' gets you python.org as 1st result. You don't want to go to the .com
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Most people (even geeks) use google to find a site they don't remember the exact url for, and google does a very good job at finding that url, regardless if there is a .com with the same name.
Eg. searching for 'python' gets you python.org as 1st result. You don't want to go to the .com
Because a ton of people link to python.org. Your startup most likely will not have that advantage.
Also, I wonder how many people (say, someone's boss), heard about this cool Python language and just tried python.com. Oops.
Single data point: I had not seen python.com before this, and have been programming in Python for a few years.
Somehow I also remember it's php.ne, not .com, even though I haven't visited that site so much lately.
But both of these were already an established internet brand when I started using them.