What is the Purpose of Having Different TLDs?
The general idea is that having all these different TLDs can help you communicate information about your website through your domain name.
Let’s look at an example that’s near and dear to our hearts – WordPress.
There are actually two different WordPress sites, which has been a source of eternal confusion for new WordPress users. Each has a different TLD, which actually does a pretty good job of indicating what the site is about:
WordPress.com – this is the site for the commercial, for-profit venture from Automattic.
WordPress.org – this is the site for the open-source WordPress software managed by the nonprofit WordPress Foundation organization. In the real world, things don’t always fit so neatly.
For example, we already talked about how startups and tech companies use .io domains, despite .io actually being a ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory.
