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Ask HN: Why are lots of startups using the .io domain?
It seems lots of recent startups are using the .io domain. What are the reasons behind this? It must be more than just domain availability, as there are lots of domain extensions to choose from with lots more availability that .com and .net.
- otoburb 14y agoAppeals to the HN audience obsession with technology, due to the similarity and oblique reference to input/output (i/o).
- irunbackwards 14y agoI'm not sure, but the only one that makes sense so far is filepicker.io
- drstewart 14y agofirehose.io
- yolesaber 14y agoDomain name availability.
- Mitchella 14y agoAgreed. Domain name availability is very hard sometimes. For others it might just make sense. Example: if I created a webapp and for some reason wanted to call it Sendio, sendio.com is taken but I can always get send.io and run my app from there with a cool url
- edwinyzh 14y agoI guess, 1 - It implies IT tech related, IO = input/output, as pointed out by otoburb; 2 - Domain name availability, as pointed out by yolesaber; 3 - Google named its developer conference 'Google IO', just a guess.
- wilfra 14y agoThis is the correct answer.