Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

Post by Gertig » Mon, May 06, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

Xcelerate wrote: post #67

260 days ago I posted a webapp I made on HN, listing all of the available remaining .io domains in order of most common words -- with 2, 3, 4, and 5 letter columns. It was completely free, but it got one upvote I think? The site is currently down, but if there's interest I can put it back online.

Post by thorax » Mon, May 06, 2013, 5:17 PM UTC

arb99 wrote: post #22

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?

Post by bcoates » Mon, May 06, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

wcfields wrote: post #63

highace wrote: post #41

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.

You people and your TLD purity... Railing against re-use of small countries TLDs is the 2013 version of writing "Micro$oft".

Post by intrawl » Mon, May 06, 2013, 6:00 PM UTC

Post by tomchuk » Mon, May 06, 2013, 6:04 PM UTC

Gertig wrote: post #39

tomchuk wrote: post #32

Earlier 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

    for i in `egrep '^[a-z]{3}$' /usr/share/dict/words`
    do
      whois $i.io | grep -q '\- Available' && echo $i.io
    done

    for i in {a..z}{a..z}.io
    do
      whois $i | grep -q '\- Available' && echo $i
    done

    iz.io
    jy.io
    kf.io
    kq.io
    lq.io
    qf.io
    qg.io
    qj.io
    qo.io
    qs.io
    qy.io
    uj.io
    yd.io
    yl.io
    yz.io