> "It's a weird historical quirk that .io randomly became popular in the developer community" The reason for me is totally clear: Github Pages gives me a free

> "It's a weird historical quirk that .io randomly became popular in the developer community" The reason for me is totally clear: Github Pages gives me a free subdomain for http://pingtype.github.io http://pingtype.github.io but not .com. I registered http://peterburk.github.com http://peterburk.github.com before that policy changed.