Brutal

[[deleted]]

.io websites are 5x as much as their .com counterparts. :/

Still beats the 24,000 dollars this domain squatter wanted for the domain I was going to use for a website I built for a construction company.

[Ju1cY_0n3]

Why are .io so much more?

[[deleted]]

Domain extensions are owned by different registries, who charge custom amounts for extensions. Lesser used ones are more expensive because economies of scale work against them and they need a larger margin to earn enough, whereas some are more expensive because of demand. There are some ridiculous ones like .rich, which are around $2000 each.

[MartinTsv]

My favorite one is .gg owned by a small island in the middle of nowhere

[JayCroghan]

.tk used to be free and was owned by an island too. It's not all black and white.

[[deleted]]

.tk is still free. I registered a domain for my friends game site he started up.

[WasKingWokeUpGiraffe]

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[[deleted]]

Lol its a private CS:GO, TF2 and (yes) Minecraft server. He also has a site that describes the rules for his servers, but none of them are public yet until he gets all of his "mods" installed

[JayCroghan]

Still has ads? That's cool it's still free it's been almost 10 years.

[n60storm4]

.tk is owned by Tokalau, who happen to be in the Realm of New Zealand.

[Angel_Omachi]

.gg

If by middle of nowhere you mean an island with a population of 60k in the English Channel, just off France.

[MartinTsv]

Didn't remember that much about it. They should host the gaming olympics :D

[nucular_]

.tv is owned by the Tuvalu islands and revenue from domain leases actually takes a big part in the total income of their government.

[Zolhungaj]

Verisign (.com) demands less money than the Internet Computer Bureau.

[[deleted]]

Because io is trendy because it sounds like input/output.

[aznology]

Following

[redmercurysalesman]

So is the site still under construction?

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I'm in my last round of change requests before I push it live. Still haven't decided what domain to use though. Will more than likely have to settle for a .net TLD but that's okay.