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Who on earth uses .io for production critical domains?
by notyourday 8y ago
Who on earth uses .io for production critical domains?
- Someone1234 8y agoThese posts are tiring. > Who uses [any technology/infrastructure choice] on production?! A lot of people. That's always the answer.
- notyourday 8y agoUsing TLDs ran by monkey operators via registrars ran by barely competent companies is like screwing $5 full service hookers in NYC without a condom -- should you choose to do that you should not be surprised that you at best get gonorrhea and syphilis.
- emodendroket 8y agoWho on Earth would buy a .io domain if it were advertised that it might stop working for days at a time and you had no recourse?
- runnr_az 8y agoIt's not like .io is run out of a backoffice somewhere these days. Afilias provides the backend -- they handle a lot of different TLDs...
- foepys 8y agoHere is the obligatory post about how bad .io treated security less than 1 year back [1]. Someone was able to take over the whole .io zone just by registering a few domains. 1: https://thehackerblog.com/the-io-error-taking-control-of-all-io-domains-with-a-targeted-registration/index.html https://thehackerblog.com/the-io-error-taking-control-of-all...
- csdreamer7 8y ago.io domains are popular, especially among the HN crowd; despite the high price and poor practices of the registrar. You should know that being on HN.