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In other words, I'm not sure this is a good thing or sets a good precedent. I understand the rationale as they're just reacting to what the industry is doing (I'm looking at you GH) but I imagine we'll see more of this in the future.
I say all this as a (legitimate) .io domain holder.
Somewhere there is a bailiwick just waiting for the crafting community to jump all over it.
If interested http://andio.herokuapp.com
EDIT: was.io and mph.io have been purchased since posting this comment, now 38 left.
I'm amazed at how fast this was done, seems like only weeks ago several people suggested this.
It probably helped that every Github Pages site started going to username.github.io. I'd imagine a variety of repositories became harder to find, which'd be noticeable at Google HQ.
This is pretty cool, I have been a huge fan of .io domain names for a long time. I even tried (unsuccessfully) to sell a, checked daily, list of the available three letter domain names for $19. There are currently 40 three letter word domain names left, there are a couple common acronyms like CST.io that are available too. If interested http://andio.herokuapp.com EDIT: was.io and mph.io have been purchased since post…
nic.io must be tickled pink. Queue the land grab! In other words, I'm not sure this is a good thing or sets a good precedent. I understand the rationale as they're just reacting to what the industry is doing (I'm looking at you GH) but I imagine we'll see more of this in the future. I say all this as a (legitimate) .io domain holder. Somewhere there is a bailiwick just waiting for the crafting community to jump all o…
nic.io must be tickled pink. Queue the land grab! In other words, I'm not sure this is a good thing or sets a good precedent. I understand the rationale as they're just reacting to what the industry is doing (I'm looking at you GH) but I imagine we'll see more of this in the future. I say all this as a (legitimate) .io domain holder. Somewhere there is a bailiwick just waiting for the crafting community to jump all o…
I've got to think that they'll see a pretty big influx of .io registrations today & over the next few days, I'm sure they're thrilled.
I also have the same reservations too, though -- although I applaud the reaction & speed, a big part of me wonders if it's really best suited for decisions like this.
What happens when some other TLD needs to be re-categorized the same? Where does it stop?
Is there any precedent to Google removing a domain from their 'gccTLD' list?
That'd be more scary / have a bigger potential impact on people I'd assume -- although I suppose they could just 'tweak' the TLD to not rank quite as high without doing as much publicly like this perhaps...
I hope prices stay "high"; maybe $55+/yr is enough to keep the domain squatters in check to some extent.