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.IO is truly just a phenomenon that "just happened." It collectively rolled out and picked up momentum with each new domain registration. I remember a few years
by BorisMelnik 11y ago
.IO is truly just a phenomenon that "just happened." It collectively rolled out and picked up momentum with each new domain registration. I remember a few years back when I started seeing a few here and there pop up. Right away as an old school Linux veteran I thought it was cute and "got" the idea. No one planned this, and even if they did it wasn't the master plan that created the popularity of .IO.
.IO has only commercialized within the web developer and b2b communities. I'm not saying that in a negative way, it is however a billion dollar industry at least. I really appreciate the post from a historical standpoint and hope in some way the popularity of .io will some way contribute to this territory.
- ricardobeat 11y ago> a billion dollar industry at least The latest stats I could find [1] put the total number of .io domains at around one million. Even if you assume $100 registration fee (you can get one for much less), it's still 900m shy of a billion. [1] http://blog.park.io/articles/enormous-growth-of-io-domains/ http://blog.park.io/articles/enormous-growth-of-io-domains/
- grinnick 11y agoHow do you buy them for cheaper than $100?
- quarterto 11y agoGandi has them for $35/year. Nic.io itself is £60 for the first year, but it goes down after a few years (I'm currently paying £30 plus tax).
- cmadan 11y agoiwantmyname.com has them for $49/year.
- keithblaha 11y agocurrently $32.88/year with namecheap.com
- BorisMelnik 11y agosorry I meant our industry meaning "web development etc"