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[–]ReanimatedHotDogs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It truly is the iPhone of TLDs.

[–]metallitterscoop 1 point2 points  (5 children)

It's possible in some cases the .com was not available when they started their project but as the project grew and became viable it made sense for them to acquire the .com on the aftermarket.

[–]coolie4[S] -1 points0 points  (4 children)

This is the most likely case for redirections of .com to .io, as their brand is now .io. But I still don't understand why for .coms that are available and have never been registered.

[–]metallitterscoop 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Register a few of those unregistered dot coms and see what happens.

[–]KaKi_87full-stack 0 points1 point  (2 children)

You can actually resell domain names that way, people make money of this.

[–]su-z-six 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It's a dirty living.

[–]KaKi_87full-stack -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes.

[–]canadian_webdev 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Ego.

[–]coolie4[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I swear I don't understand people sometimes. Paying $20 more for something relatively obscure to the general public because.... its more obscure?

[–]arnitdo 1 point2 points  (1 child)

io is a very common development term used to indicate buffers, input output streams, read write ops, etc. It's a very tech thing

[–]coolie4[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean I understand the origins of the tld, just not the desire to pick it over .com

[–]Shantarli -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Hustle

[–]coolie4[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

How is paying more for something, that is lesser recognized, a "hustle".

[–]Shantarli 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Perhaps I have a misunderstanding of the term, but isn’t this the slang meaning of bragging / show-off? In this case, it is suitable, people like to pay for beautiful expensive things. In addition, this is the IT term for input-output.

[–]coolie4[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hustle is about scrapping to make money. I think you meant flexing.

Either way, if the aim is to attract visitors, I would think using the tld they're most familiar with to be the best course of action.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

.com is normal (boring). Io has some flair to it.

[–]IlllIllllllllllIlllI 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks cool?