I recently saw an experienced domain broker that I follow on Facebook, Ryan Colby, post an interesting comment about .IO being the new .COM in the technology space. By technology space I think he means tech startups, and while I’m a huge fan of .IO, and I know a ton of startups that know and love it…I’m not sure I’d say it’s the new .COM for anyone.
I think the process of acquiring a .IO usually goes something like this, a startup says:
“Hey, I really want to buy that awesome one-word .COM!”
Then they reach out to the owner, find out it costs six or seven figures, and then say, okay the .COMs out, what’s my next best choice. In this case, I do think we’ve seen a massive trend in .IO being a top pick. Still, like I said above, I don’t think .IO is the new .COM, instead I think .IO is the new alternative .COM for tech startups who might have picked domains like .NET or .CO in the past.
What do you think? Comment and let your voice be heard!
From July 10, 2017:
Taking Control of All .io Domains with a Targeted Registration
The author discovered he was able to register the domain names of the .io Registry nameservers, specifically NS-A1.io …..and began receiving the DNS traffic requests for the entire .io TLD, which he couldn’t possibly fufill, so the requests would time-out and fail-over to 3 of the 7 .io nameservers he left unregistered. Had he registered all 7, he would have shut down .io
thehackerblog.com/the-io-error-taking-control-of-all-io-domains-with-a-targeted-registration/index.html
Of course, he contacted .io and 101domain refunded his registrations.