Google now treats .io as a gccTLD • Hacker News Board

Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

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Post by Gertig » Mon, May 06, 2013, 2:31 PM UTC

ambiate wrote: post #17

Gertig wrote: post #14

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…

I was shocked to see 'hey.io' was just bought today.

Yeah, there are some really interesting words that have been available way longer than I thought they would be.

Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

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Post by arb99 » Mon, May 06, 2013, 2:36 PM UTC

DanBlake wrote: post #13

Sort of surprised .ly is missing. Maybe related to the conflict over there, because it was/is pretty widely used by startups

I thought that as well.

Also, I can't think of any .ms sites yet that is listed there. Even a google seasrch of site:.ms doesn't seem to show up anything that sticks out... maybe a few music related sites using it as the 'music' tld?

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Post by stevenklein » Mon, May 06, 2013, 2:38 PM UTC

What will the SEO effects of this be to existing .io site?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 06, 2013, 2:43 PM UTC

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Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

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Post by evaneykelen » Mon, May 06, 2013, 2:46 PM UTC

purephase wrote: post #11

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…

Just recently these names were still available while checking names for a project: feature.io, using.io, edges.io, advan.io, gains.io, plain.io, dest.io and nippy.io. I haven't checked if they were still available as of today so YMMV.

Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

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Post by benackles » Mon, May 06, 2013, 2:49 PM UTC

mh- wrote: post #16

ceejayoz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Based on their reluctance to put Google Code out of its misery, its sometimes hard to believe they might be aware. :)

It's a good thing they don't "put Google Code out of it's misery". There are millions of sites using jQuery hosted on Google Code.

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Post by iand » Mon, May 06, 2013, 2:55 PM UTC

What's the attraction of the .io domain? Seeing it crop up in many places and I'm not sure what the significance is.

Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

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Post by purephase » Mon, May 06, 2013, 2:57 PM UTC

stevenklein wrote: post #23

What will the SEO effects of this be to existing .io site?

I imagine that the previous localization results for .io will be scrapped. This means that .io domains will now rank as high as .com/.net etc.

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Post by sim0n » Mon, May 06, 2013, 2:57 PM UTC

iand wrote: post #27

What's the attraction of the .io domain? Seeing it crop up in many places and I'm not sure what the significance is.

People treat it as though the io stands for input/output (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/output).

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Post by adanto6840 » Mon, May 06, 2013, 3:00 PM UTC

iand wrote: post #27

What's the attraction of the .io domain? Seeing it crop up in many places and I'm not sure what the significance is.

I've just assumed that it tends to imply 'technology' via the long-existing term "I/O" [input/output].

Even the businesses that that use it and are less tech-heavy in business model tend to be web- and/or mobile-first type companies from what I've seen...