On: .io domains with 3 letters remaining

[skcin7]

Could somebody explain to me the imporance of .io domains in today's market? It seems they are very hot right now, especially in the startup world and I think they could even become as popular as .com.

[rallison → skcin7]

The main reason that this TLD has recently gained traction is due to google adding .io to their generic country code top level domain (gccTLD) list:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

[josteink → rallison]

Not entirely accurate.

That all happened after hipsters squatting these domains cried Google a whaaambulance over not getting the search-rank they felt they "deserved".

Something else made these utterly pointless domains popular before that, but what that was, I don't know.

[kybernetyk → josteink]

> Something else made these utterly pointless domains popular before that, but what that was, I don't know.

Possibly 'io' being short for input/output. The first .io domains I remember were some programmer blogs/personal sites. Now they are just over used.