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Seriously. I can't imagine a business entity that needs a high-conversion landing page, but can tolerate not owning a domain for it. If my therapist's page (from their examples) was ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy, I'd probably start looking for a new one.


I agree. And for many of these use-cases a "Facebook" page for the business would be fine. I know how we all love to hate facebook here, but for many small businesses--like the guy who fixes our neon signs--the Facebook brand page works great.


It works for Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, the only difference is a few billion users.


tis but a scratch


> I'd probably start looking for a new one.

You might, but I think most people would not (for example: me, I don't care one bit). Most people wouldn't even notice the domain, and most people wouldn't know what to do with this information ("the URL is ahoyo.to/amazing-therapy and not amazing-therapy.com? OK, what does that mean?").


Correct or not, I would bet most people have the noisy association that different domains means different entities as far as credibility works.

In other words, mimicking the look of a bank is probably good enough to make money, but not enough to make most people believe without the domain.




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