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Cheapest IO Domains for Start-Ups

4 points by tux 13y ago

lowboy 13y ago
Did you do some research on registrars and then find that this was the cheapest? Because this looks like an ad.
Nanzikambe 13y ago
Spoiler Alert: They ain't "cheap" or "the cheapest"
- tux 13y ago
  Do you know any better ? In that case please share. This one is $39/year the cheapest I could find after doing research for a few days.
  - Nanzikambe 13y ago
    Sure, I pay under $12 a year for a variety of domains (.com, .net, .pw) via namecheap, includes free dns hosting too. Unless you feel that a .io domain is a prereq for your startup because of your deep affinity for the deep blue of the Indian ocean .. or something.
    - tux 13y ago
      NameCheap does not offer .io domains yet, same goes for GoDaddy. As for .io prefix it stands for input/output for most of us (or at least me) and not Indian Ocean ;-) Its kind of like .pro prefix, for some its "professional" for some "programmer", and .co for some its "company" for some "code". You make you're own meaning per domain/prefix I guess.
      - Nanzikambe 13y ago
        You really aren't, you're just buying into a particularly successful form of advertising that has convinced you that .io's tentative connection to programmer specific jargon make it attractive to the startup culture, despite being more expensive than virtually all alternatives.
        tux 13y ago
        Well yeah big part of is is "Geotargetable domains" > https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en But I was talking about what it means to many and/or me :-) for example, if you're interested read this; http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/artisanal-websites-the-rise-of-io-domains-for-well-crafted-web-services http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/artisanal-websites-the-ri...
tux 13y ago
Yes of course I did a research :-) This is not an ad! I wanted to find the cheapest place possible that offered .io Ones I did, I thought HR users would like to know too ^_^
dingaling 13y ago
GANDI are a good registrar but don't forget you need to add French taxes to that $39, plus any conversion rates and cross-border fees charged by your bank to pay Crédit Mutuel, their bank. And you need to do that each year for a .io as you can't register that TLD for a multi-year period. As for GANDI's service: DNS and DNSSEC is good,their free mail service is a reliable back-up for me and they are prompt at answering questions for which they have an answer, though I've found they tend not to answer when they don't know... And I'd never think of them as cheap!

4 points by tux 13y ago

lowboy 13y ago

Did you do some research on registrars and then find that this was the cheapest? Because this looks like an ad.

Nanzikambe 13y ago

Spoiler Alert: They ain't "cheap" or "the cheapest"

tux 13y ago
Do you know any better ? In that case please share. This one is $39/year the cheapest I could find after doing research for a few days.
- Nanzikambe 13y ago
  Sure, I pay under $12 a year for a variety of domains (.com, .net, .pw) via namecheap, includes free dns hosting too. Unless you feel that a .io domain is a prereq for your startup because of your deep affinity for the deep blue of the Indian ocean .. or something.
  - tux 13y ago
    NameCheap does not offer .io domains yet, same goes for GoDaddy. As for .io prefix it stands for input/output for most of us (or at least me) and not Indian Ocean ;-) Its kind of like .pro prefix, for some its "professional" for some "programmer", and .co for some its "company" for some "code". You make you're own meaning per domain/prefix I guess.
    - Nanzikambe 13y ago
      You really aren't, you're just buying into a particularly successful form of advertising that has convinced you that .io's tentative connection to programmer specific jargon make it attractive to the startup culture, despite being more expensive than virtually all alternatives.
      - tux 13y ago
        Well yeah big part of is is "Geotargetable domains" > https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922?hl=en But I was talking about what it means to many and/or me :-) for example, if you're interested read this; http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/artisanal-websites-the-rise-of-io-domains-for-well-crafted-web-services http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/artisanal-websites-the-ri...

tux 13y ago

Yes of course I did a research :-) This is not an ad! I wanted to find the cheapest place possible that offered .io Ones I did, I thought HR users would like to know too ^_^

dingaling 13y ago

GANDI are a good registrar but don't forget you need to add French taxes to that $39, plus any conversion rates and cross-border fees charged by your bank to pay Crédit Mutuel, their bank. And you need to do that each year for a .io as you can't register that TLD for a multi-year period. As for GANDI's service: DNS and DNSSEC is good,their free mail service is a reliable back-up for me and they are prompt at answering questions for which they have an answer, though I've found they tend not to answer when they don't know... And I'd never think of them as cheap!