Google now treats .io as a gccTLD

Post by intrawl » Mon, May 06, 2013, 6:46 PM UTC

vincentmac wrote: post #83

intrawl wrote: post #77

Is there any way to register an io domain without your address and phone number showing up in the whois information?

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).

Post by tracker1 » Mon, May 06, 2013, 7:33 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #46

kijin wrote: post #20

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.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.

Post by Gertig » Mon, May 06, 2013, 8:14 PM UTC

bobwaycott wrote: post #85

Gertig wrote: post #71

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It's tough to get traction on HN for certain things. Also, if you think about it people don't want other people to know what domain names are available "just in case". There are currently 26 three letter words/common acronyms left. List available here for a small fee http://andio.herokuapp.com

Posting the same comment 4 times trying to sell a list is just ridiculous. One comment was enough.

Post by Gertig » Mon, May 06, 2013, 8:21 PM UTC

tomchuk wrote: post #79

Gertig wrote: post #39

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There are less than 40 three letter word domains names available now. http://andio.herokuapp.com

$20 for the results of bash one-liner? (by my count there are far more than 40 left) for i in `egrep '^[a-z]{3}$' /usr/share/dict/words` do whois $i.io | grep -q '\- Available' && echo $i.io done Heck, there's still a few two-letter .io domains left 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 Bu…

Post by w1ntermute » Mon, May 06, 2013, 10:01 PM UTC

kmfrk wrote: post #48

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.

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 .c…