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Why .io domains are so popular?

• adzm 5y ago
  Because they are cool! Also identifies something as having developers or technical folk as the target audience. And because of it's popularity, it's one of the few generally trusted top-level domains (by both humans and mail daemons)
• mekkkkkk 5y ago
  I/O is used frequently in tech as an acronym for Input/Output. I suppose that's why it's popular for techy stuff like SaaS providers and such. It's also a moon of Jupiter which adds to the nerdgasm.
• xxpor 5y ago
  For me personally, it came down to the fact that $firstname.io was available, but .com, .org, .net, and whatever else I checked wasn't. Kind of regret it now, not so much for the price but because of the questionable political situation with the continued availability of the TLD doing forward.