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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...