Thanks for the support. I was about to say maybe equating what we're all doing to a pyramid scheme was unfair and perhaps "house of cards" would be better. Just out of curiosity I peruse the wikipedia page for house of cards and I get... "A house of cards (also known as a card tower or a card castle) is a structure created by stacking playing cards on top of each other, often in the shape of a pyramid." Hah!
I do believe that for those of us that are at all tech savvy, having a .com is a big deal. I'm planning to go to Savannah, Georgia soon and my wife and I are planning to take a ghost tour with some friends. I joked because the company uses an AOL e-mail address.
I've seen small businesses and self-employed people using subdomains on Wix websites and that seems unprofessional to me.
I've never really heard my less savvy friends complain about things like that though.
The other day I was driving through St. Petersburg, FL and I saw a sign outside of a landscaping business with the address Allseasons.Name and I thought, "there's gotta be a better TLD for them than that (Allseasons is taken in 93 extensions) but I think if the average person can figure out how to type in .com or .net, they can manage .name.