98% of Top YC Companies by valuation use a .com domain

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6 years ago

I was wondering about the statements here (2015) and they not only hold true but seem even higher for .com use in 2019:

Per: http://paulgraham.com/name.html

> 100% of the top 20 YC companies by valuation have the .com of their name. 94% of the top 50 do.

Top 20: 100% (2019)

Top 32: 100% (2019)

Top 50: 98% (2019)

Top 100: 95% (2019)

(Twitch #21 actually owns twitch.com ... xendit #53 owns xendit.com .. cleartax owns cleartax.com ... quero owns quero.com )

Ref: https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/

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