I don't know how to feel about this. I've commented many times before, warning others about the .io domain and the consequences they'll face with ranking on Google. Now that won't be a problem. But let's face it, .io will never be as 'accepted' as .com by Billy Customer, and now squatters have a reason to go buying them all up, so good luck grabbing one for a techie startup or niche.
Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
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Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#42I've always thought the .io is much better than .co
.co seems too much like a miss-spelling of .com
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
In addition to the "techiness" of io, a lot of the draw has been availability. They've been going at $50/yr for a while, which has kept the squatters away. Last time I looked, there were a plethora of three-letter English words available. I jumped in in 2009, and basically had my pick of 2-letter domains.
There are less than 40 three letter word domains names available now. http://andio.herokuapp.com
Selling the remaining list is quite a smart idea. it obviously has value even though it would be relatively simple to figure out the remaining free domains on your own.
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#44I don't know how to feel about this. I've commented many times before, warning others about the .io domain and the consequences they'll face with ranking on Google. Now that won't be a problem. But let's face it, .io will never be as 'accepted' as .com by Billy Customer, and now squatters have a reason to go buying them all up, so good luck grabbing one for a techie startup or niche.
While I agree that .io will likely not be seen the same way .com is by your average customer it may not be that much of an issue if Google starts ranking .io domain names highly in search results. Which is how many people choose what sites to visit or buy from.
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#45Sort 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?
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#46I hope prices stay "high"; maybe $55+/yr is enough to keep the domain squatters in check to some extent.
.io prices are coming down rather quickly. Gandi.net sells them for $40 apiece, and I wouldn't be surprised if it became available for half of that with some sort of promotion. I'm waiting to grab one when that happens.
Damnit, I just paid $72 three seconds ago, before reading the comments.
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#47I don't know how to feel about this. I've commented many times before, warning others about the .io domain and the consequences they'll face with ranking on Google. Now that won't be a problem. But let's face it, .io will never be as 'accepted' as .com by Billy Customer, and now squatters have a reason to go buying them all up, so good luck grabbing one for a techie startup or niche.
> .io will never be as 'accepted' as .com by Billy Customer
It's seemed to me that all the uses of .io so far are precisely for sites only developers will have any reason to visit--software libraries, B2B SaaS, etc.
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#48I don't know how to feel about this. I've commented many times before, warning others about the .io domain and the consequences they'll face with ranking on Google. Now that won't be a problem. But let's face it, .io will never be as 'accepted' as .com by Billy Customer, and now squatters have a reason to go buying them all up, so good luck grabbing one for a techie startup or niche.
It requires something about the way we conduct ourselves to change, at least.
I remember reading about how Japanese advertizers would use Google queries in ads instead of URLs - and we in the West did little to improve on that with QR codes - so it's possible that there's a place for .io somewhere. I just think it'd be a really bad idea to use them interchangeably with .com domains.
I guess the same can be said of .co domains, which look like typos to the average person, when they aren't used as shorturls.
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#49Google, .im is missing from the list. Should have been treated almost equally to '.me'.. and .me got it's gTLD status right from the start.
Re: Google now treats .io as a gccTLD
#50This 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…
If you are no longer selling the list, can you show it on your site? When you say 3 letter domains, are you referring to dictionary words or any random 3 letter?