Originally Posted by mineistaken

My valuing com has nothing to do with google/seo, especially after they even stopped giving value to keywords in domain names.

I would take italianclub.com over italian.club any time. And pretty sure majority would do the same.

And it is actually easier to remember because people are used to coms, not to hundreds of new useless tlds. They do not even have to think, they just know it is a com most of the time. Anything else comes confusing.