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My wife and I run a small law firm in the UK. Originally, we called it decoded:Legal. It made sense at the time, even though quite a few places struggled with the idea that a company name might have a colon in it. We used decodedlegal.com, and I registered decodedlegal.co.uk too (and, it seems, decodedlegal.uk) although I don’t think I’ve set up DNS for either of them. Then, when a friend pointed out that there is a .legal tld, I thought “that looks nicer”, and we switched to decoded.legal, both as the company name and also our domain name. I wonder if - nice though it still is - I should think about using a different tld. (If I moved, I’d maintain decoded.legal indefinitely anyway, because people are used to sending email to @decoded.legal addresses.) A poor reputation? The .legal tld appears to have a poor reputation. For instance, it is on this list of “The Top Most Abused Top Level Domains”. It would be a shame if people could not find our business, or access any of its online…

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