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Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

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Post by purephase »

qu4z-2 wrote: post #112
derleth wrote: post #78

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> Queue the land grab! The use of the word 'cue' in this context is really dead, isn't it?

I assume we're doing the land grab once we've sorted out all the other important things we've got to do first :)

Good on you. Got me to laugh on a Tuesday morning when I've been neck-deep in troubleshooting Redis.

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Post by n00btroll »

donretag wrote: post #35

Maybe I finally do something with my .io domain (or the countless .com domains I have registered)! My .io has been hosted on GAE since the start. I wish GAE would support naked domains. http://www.macch.io/

Actually you can direct macch.io to www.macch.io. Iremember doing it for one of my domain which was hosted on AppEngine.

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Post by corford »

intrawl wrote: post #91
vincentmac wrote: post #83

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Try gandi.net. They offer free whois privacy with registration and their prices on .io domains are VERY good. One thing you will have to do is let your credit card company know about the transaction as the charge will come from France and will be flagged as fraudulent (at least that was my experience with AMEX).

Thanks, gandi looks nice. However, their domain privacy page doesn't mention anything about .io domains. Does anyone know if they offer whois privacy with .io domains as well?

I use Gandi for a load of domains (they're great!) and have just bought an io one through them but sadly there isn't much whois privacy apart from hiding your email address. Name, postal address and telephone are all visible. I think this might be a .io requirement though since Gandi offer whois protection for free. You just enable it on your contact record and any domain linked to that contact will then use Gandi's data rather than yours. Depending on the tld this means either everything is masked apart from the owner's name (e.g. for .com or .net) or only certain fields are (as determined by the various registries and each one's policy on hiding real owner info).

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Post by unreal37 »

bdcravens wrote: post #64
unreal37 wrote: post #34

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I think prices for .com/.net should go up too. Too many domain squatters and advertising-only domains. If it was $50 a year, some good names might become available for real businesses.

Or just regular registration. I have near 100 that I registered with good intention. Then I get distracted and later I'll look at my list and be amazed at the quality of the names I have. Nothing that I could sell for much, but that would be great memorable names for a service or company. They're so cheap that it's no big deal (at least in bite size chunks), but the truth is I'm locking it up for an entrepreneur with…

Same here. I had over 50 at one point, some short, some clever... and just in the past couple of years turned off auto-renew for many of them...
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