potential to rank if a domain doesn't end in .com

a .exstention has no bearing on indexing at all.

a .com is so old and known for it exstention it just popular then any other exstention .

a lot of people see a .com as safe , but it only a popularty problam from news and tv and radio advetisement.

there no reason that any . exstention can not be on top of Google or serch engines .

the reason so many .com are on top of seach engines becouse the whole of the internet was a .com or .net but with the relise of many . exstentions your eventually see many diffrent . exstentions on top of seach engines.

there no priority on what ever . exstention you use with seo optimazation they are all equal as eachover .

gd luck.

I had a site with .tk
and it used to rank higher than the .com ones
xD

honestly from a customer standpoint id trust anything niche related, other than the amount of effort/quality of the backlinks, seo and niche specific content i think its safer to go with a traditional TLD in order to actually maximize chances to rank. thank you everyone who has responded so far and offered their input