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.io domains with 3 letters remaining
- FramesPerSushi 14y agoNice, lots of cool stuff in there. I also made a tool that searches for all available 2 letter .io domains at any given time. http://framespersushi.com/lab/two-letter-io/ http://framespersushi.com/lab/two-letter-io/
- berendhh 14y agoSo, are there any left?
- rallison 14y agoThe short answer is yes. The slightly longer answer is, yes, but no two letter domains remain. Can you register something like d3.io? Yes. Can you register something like dx.io? No.
- FramesPerSushi 14y agoLast time I checked, there were some left without numbers. However they all had the letter Q in them, which people seem to hate.
- rallison 14y agoNope, not any more. Assuming your tool is correct (which, from checking other sources, it appears to be), all two letter io domains are taken, even those starting with q. There are still a decent number of letter + number domains [1], along with a ton of three letter domains. [1] I posted a list of letter + number .io domains recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5672237 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5672237 - most are still available, but some were immediately taken due to the post and due to FramesPerSushi's tool (which I found rather useful).
- russellbeattie 14y agoYou guys missed it! Back in January 2011, there were a bunch: http://rb.io/blog/two-letter-io-domains-available http://rb.io/blog/two-letter-io-domains-available :-D
- psophis 14y agoTwo letter .io domains left as of May 10, 2013 1:40am: http://pastebin.com/k5qbbACB http://pastebin.com/k5qbbACB
- josteink 14y agoEw. Those domains look so shady that if I received emails from them, I'm pretty sure they would instantly be classified as spam.
- russellbeattie 14y agoI wrote this simple python script w/ dictionary file to check free .io domains based on ~18,000 basic words: https://gist.github.com/russellbeattie/4982393 https://gist.github.com/russellbeattie/4982393 It uses the fact that nic.io's whois response is fast and simple.
- nodesocket 14y agoHere is the output as of 05/10/13 1:07 AM (Pacific). https://gist.github.com/nodesocket/5553079 https://gist.github.com/nodesocket/5553079 How hard would it be to make your python script spawn multiple whois lookups? Waiting on a single takes forever.
- nodesocket 14y agoAmazed how many good names are still available. Looking to do a real-estate startup? How about: crib.io (available)
- russellbeattie 14y agoHere you go: https://gist.github.com/russellbeattie/5553420 https://gist.github.com/russellbeattie/5553420 It queues up the words and then has 10 processes check the domains. But it won't do much for you, as whois.nic.io barfs after a short while from too many connections.
- rallison 14y agoSidenote: I am enjoying all of the current interest in the .io domain (speaking as someone who owns a few .io domains). As a recent addition to google's gccTLD list, it still has a ton of great names available. Part of this is no doubt due to the higher registration costs. Part, however, is likely due to the fact that .io was only recently upgraded to gccTLD status. Also, the most reasonable .io registrar I've found is gandi at $40. Out of curiosity, has anybody found anything less expensive from a reliable registrar?
- NKCSS 14y agoLol, I paid €84 :P I guess it pays to shop around a bit first :)
- wwweston 14y agoNot available: ruf.io (would have been great for Dante Basco) sud.io (would have been great for Phil Collins)
- shitlord 14y agoI can't believe nobody took vag.io. Then again, there's not much you can do with it due to the ridiculous rules on .IO domains.
- jaredstenquist 14y agoor tit.io, but I just decided to buy it.
- skcin7 14y agovag.io is no longer available. But vagio.com is. I have a feeling it wont be in a little while after I make this post. Sucks domain squatters are such fucking scumbags. Plus nobody is interested in the term 'vagio' in the first place or else both domains would have been taken before today, so there's no demand or means to make a profit off of them. I hate domain squatters... the worst form of scum on earth!
- timerickson 14y agofellat.io is also still available.
- zimpenfish 14y agoNot in my house! ba-da-dum-tish
- skcin7 14y agoCould somebody explain to me the imporance of .io domains in today's market? It seems they are very hot right now, especially in the startup world and I think they could even become as popular as .com.
- rallison 14y agoThe main reason that this TLD has recently gained traction is due to google adding .io to their generic country code top level domain (gccTLD) list: https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1347922 https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
- josteink 14y agoNot entirely accurate. That all happened after hipsters squatting these domains cried Google a whaaambulance over not getting the search-rank they felt they "deserved". Something else made these utterly pointless domains popular before that, but what that was, I don't know.
- kybernetyk 14y ago> Something else made these utterly pointless domains popular before that, but what that was, I don't know. Possibly 'io' being short for input/output. The first .io domains I remember were some programmer blogs/personal sites. Now they are just over used.
- dreen 14y agoCan anyone recommend a good registrar for buying these?
- josteink 14y agoI hate to be that guy who posts this sort of comment. Especially on HN. But still: Someone has to say it. Pointless hipster-TLD is pointless. Utterly pointless.
- rdl 14y agoVery short names are useful for link shortening. There are good reasons to pick names out of the "gTLDified" ccTLDs for that. IO isn't even a real country, so it's a better choice for ccTLD abuse than something totally stupid like LY.
- josteink 14y agoSo it's less stupid than something utterly stupid. Great. And then people choose to base the core identity of their company/service on that. Needless to say, I wish them greatness.
- rdl 14y agoI think it's totally responsible to have a shortener in a gccTLD as an adjunct to your main brand. e.g. quora.com has qr.ae as a link shortener. I'm sort of against the whole concept of link shorteners, too, but if they're run by the site themselves, long-lived, and otherwise don't break the expectations of URLs/URIs, then they might make sense for mobile and type-in use.
- shadowfiend 14y agoBecause you don't like it or…? What decides the “pointfulness” of a name? Is a name better or worse because of the TLD someone chooses to put it on? Is booking.com better than booking.io for a reason other than you've decided you don't like .io? Let me rephrase: do you have any reasoned argument anywhere for why the .io TLD is in any way bad or pointless? Because it certainly hasn't manifested itself in the comments to this post. Vitriol seems to be the only thing that's been presented so far.
- naich 14y agoI bet you wouldn't say no to eie.io
- mmieszek 14y agoI have a spare domain pin.io. If anyone has good usage for it please let me know at marcin.mieszek@gmail.com.
- ElbertF 14y agoI have http://readwrite.io http://readwrite.io and a few others. Click through for my email address.
- JosephRedfern 14y agoI don't think that this list is exhaustive. jmr.io (my initials) isn't on that list, but it's available.
- msvan 14y agoStop whining about .io being a "hipster" TLD. Hipster is just a slanderous term for someone whose interests aren't exactly aligned with yours. Live with it. .io is great because it has not been polluted by squatters and excessive usage over the past 20 years. The price of .io hopefully discourages wasteful registration, and it's a TLD used mostly by the tech savvy community, so it won't get polluted too soon. If you're in the tech community and you want a nice domain name, go for .io.