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by blackjack48 13y ago
"input-output"
- seiji 13y ago"indian ocean"
- Tarang 13y agoThat may be where the tld belongs but you'll find a disproportionally large amount of .io sites serving up APIs
- brownbat 13y agoHuh, go figure. It really took off as the home for artisanal techie websites: 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... (Beattie credits evocative short name, stable British administration, lots of available short and English word domains.)
- seiji 13y agoYup, nothing to do with APIs though. Another clever new-ish one is .ac, but it's more expensive than the already expensive .io.
- Multics 13y agoThe Rise of .io Domain Names for APIs: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/08/28/the-rise-of-io-domain-names-for-apis/ http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/08/28/the-rise-of-io-do... .io domains are very popular in a ton of different areas, though!
- prodigal_erik 13y agoOnly to people poorly informed enough not to know that "some random guy in a legal jurisdiction we don't know anything about has us by the throat, and we're okay with that" should make a service look rather sketchy.
- saryant 13y agoIt's a British territory...
- prodigal_erik 13y agoAfter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_Chagossians_from_the_Chagos_Archipelago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depopulation_of_Chagossians_fro... it looks worse than most naturally suspect unfamiliar country codes. The non-elected government seems to be run by dishonest scumbags who quietly deported all the natives to set up a military base. The people who run Guantánamo are allegedly under US jurisdiction but I wouldn't risk buying a domain from them either, because what would I do when they screw me over?