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The 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://su
by rallison 13y ago
The 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 13y 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 13y 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.