What is the trendiest generic top level domain?

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Besides .com .org and all those other mainstays...

Is .club catching steam? Curious

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It was .ly, then it became .co, and now it's .io.

Note, though, that the implicit "I/O" reference in .io means that it's more often used for products aimed at a technical audience. So as a replacement for .com, I'm not really sure what the frontrunner is now.

A few other trends that are similarly related to the .com shortage: adding "get" to the beginning of the domain or "app"/"hq" to the end.

We're probably at the end of the "everyone wants a .com/.co/.io" era though. People will start to use TLDs that have semantic value ("beer.club" instead of "beerclubapp.com" for example)

Nice, thanks, how do you know this? Is there data that backs this up? Would be a cool interactive infographic...