I think there should a distinction made between consumer startups and b2b. If you are a database or developer tools company, .io actually makes more sense. .io

I think there should a distinction made between consumer startups and b2b. If you are a database or developer tools company, .io actually makes more sense. .io is the standard, and it has become de facto. However, if your startup is a food rating service, or Uber for X, you gotta have the .com.