Okโฆ so all this bashing on .ios is getting ridiculous and annoying.
I figured maybe someone being blunt about it MAYโฆ JUST MAYYYYYYY, encourage those who are spitting out useless knowledge to do some research and stop giving bad business advice.
But with all the .io threads I have went through and all that good stuffโฆ I doubt that will happen.
So after reading almost every freakinโ .io thread on hereโฆ I now know that anyone on this thread and many other .io threads, in addition, other forums too, who have bashed .io with โonly for squattingโ, โonly for tech companiesโ < which I cannot stand, and โwill failโ, โdoesnโt have anything on .comโ ectโฆ makes me assume you know nothing, lack all aspects of creativity without the knowhow of when or where to implement it and just havenโt had success with .ioโs, donโt do research, have a mad lack business sense, made bad investments because of your inexperience, or just donโt have the money to invest so wanna put .ios down in any possible way you can think of.
I know one should never assume anything and that it makes an Ass out of U and meโฆ
But to meโฆ itโs only fair and or logical to assume this about those who bashed .io, because theyโre assuming the .io future (which no one can predict), they are trying to go ahead and disprove FACTS, or at least havenโt done their research before commenting, and are basing โ.comโ against โ.ioโ which is outright ridiculous.
OF COURSE .com is always going to trump .io.
The Internet is Consumed by websites containing .com extensions and thatโs the most well known extension.
Pleaseโฆ tell me something new and something that is not common sense 100. Not even 101.
.com trumps MANY extensions and will only continue.
It beat the other extensions to the Punch.
Simple as that.
But not having a .com extension and using a .io does not at all change your credibility, potential for sales, becoming a brand and more.
Matter of Fact, having a .io can give you a bigger reach to your market globally.
I can make a business or a site successful with a .ickyicky extension and so can other experienced people on NP or wherever they are, who KNOW WHAT THEYโRE TALKING ABOUT and KNOW WHAT THEYโRE DOING.
But if you are saying that .com is โbetterโ than .io because it will earn more, is easier to make a brand, is more credible, has more potential ectโฆ
YOU ARE MY MARKET.
Thank you for your future business.
Alsoโฆ the โNo Successful businesses have .iosโ????
REALLY?
Just Logout of everything and Turn your Computer Off Now.
So StockSnap.io is not one of the most popular sites right now? Theyโre not very very successful?
Slither.io isnโt ranking up there with HBO, Snapchat, Youtube, Facebook messenger ectโฆ and isnโt EXTREMELY popular and VERY SUCCESSFUL?
BinBox.io isnโt on its way to a Million MEMBERS and isnโt Brining in Insane Money?
Soup.io isnโt in the top 4,000 on Alexa? Itโs not making serious money? It doesnโt have the users base? Itโs not successful?
Agar.io? Itโs not in the top 500 sites? Not making BANK off of JUST ADS alone?
Ouo.io is smashing the living crap out of so many other other url shortner sites, including MANY well-known .coms, and it isnโt bringing in fat cash?
Codepen.io isnโt loved by tons of developers? Itโs not very successful even after earning big bucks?
How about Techinsider.io making great money and being LOVED by techies everywhere because what it is?
Waitโฆ those sites/companies must be โGarbageโ and โFakeโฆ
By even making that comment, YOU are Garbage and Fake.
Like you wouldnโt take a job at any one of those or you wouldnโt love to own any of those.
Remind me NEVER to take business advice from those who relate to any of these ridiculous comments, outlooks, โtheoriesโ and โBusiness Tacticsโ about .ioโs here on NP or In life in general.
You are wasting bandwidth.
Reading this .io thread and many others on NPโฆ made me seriously mark down those of you who have proven to me that you know nothing about business and that you are officially a liability.
All these peopleโฆ claiming to know businessโฆ. attempting to give business advice, SOUNDING RIDICULOUS โ IN FREAKING WRITING!!!! And STILL PROCEED to make irrational assumptions, statements, arguing Facts and are willing to jeopardize our industry and credibility by giving something to another person in exchange for moneyโฆ with it being safe to sayโฆ that since they are giving the worse, inaccurate, incorrect answers and โknow howโ here on a PUBLIC forumโฆ they are probably doing the same but worse when dealing with someone privately, which then screws the other person over and INDEEDโฆ has an effect on us and makes this industry get more bullshit than it is already has all at the same time.
You are doing nothing except being misguided, giving misguidance, typing impulsively and instead of choosing to gain experience in this field, conducting research, doing the proper due diligence and accept the failure/being wrong or right when it comesโฆ you are only holding yourself back and limiting yourself to excel any furtherโฆ
Insteadโฆ you chooseโฆtoโฆ wellโฆ be an idiot.
I have โfailedโ TONS of times working Online throughout the years. And still screw up to this day.
Hellโฆ
Yesterday I misspelled a domain and regd it thinking I lucked outโฆ
Am I scared to admit I am an idiot for doing that?
NO!
I laughed, called myself an idiot and punished myself by reading 10 articles about the industry and writing 5 articles about the industry.
I Have had unsuccessful sites, made bad investments, lost good money and more.
I accept that.
But the reason I am not in a stuck position right nowโฆ
Is because I BUST ass.
I work my ass off, learn, ASK QUESTIONS, AM NOT SCARED TO SAY โI DONโT KNOW, CAN YOU HELP?โ and because when I โfailedโ, I did not continue to argue the reasoning of why I failed and give crap information and spin my words to make my failures a success like many of you.
I simply accepted it. Chose to Learn, research, network, conduct a/b testing, look back on how I failed to see the mistakes I made, and to this VERY DAY, I repeat that cycle daily, because every day there is a technological advancement, something new and unwalked ground that I knowโฆ if I stomp on hard enough Iโll make money spit out from the soil.
The reason I say all of that, is because I am starting think I am on a different Internet than many of you.
I wonder if weโre talking about the same .io domains.
If we are indeed on the same world wide web, then how??? HOW!!!??? Can you give such feedback, advice, bashing, comparisons, Drop such bold statements that are trying to disprove FACTS and top it all off with VERY FIRM futuristic predictions of .ios??????
You make me want to close my eyes and run through the woods at full speed.
It just kills meโฆ
I am seeing more MILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENTS into .io companies more than ever before here in 2016 and TONS of MULTI MILLION DOLLAR PLANS TO MOVE FORWARD IN 2017 with .ios
The amount of Kickstarter Companies are at an all-time high for .ios in 2016.
The amount of .io domains that are getting developed EVERYDAY are at an all-time high in 2016.
The amount of DAILYYYYYYYY .io SALES is at an all-time high in 2016 and is PROGESSING MONTHLY!
Many .io sites and businesses are MAKING MILLIONS!!!
There are SO MANY .io companies out there that are VERY SUCCESSFUL.
Some of which ARE Tech Companies and some of whichโฆ wellโฆ you guessed it! ARENโT!
.io can be used for ANYTHING.
But a lot of you have clearly proven you are not a professional via Domaining and in other Areas Online AND offโฆ because if you wereโฆ
You would retract all of your posts that you are probably thread hopping, writing babble, all to get you an NP โTrophyโ, but really are damaging yourself, OTHERS and the INDUSTRY.
ANDDDDDDDDD
You would know that it wouldnโt matter if the extension was a ccTLD, Gtld, BANANA TLD, a .KGHTY, .woo, .fig or .flamingo or .io
With the proper marketing, the proper advertising, the proper SEO, the proper brand awareness, the proper psychology, the proper wellโฆ this may be something you do not here oftenโฆ or possibly even have heard ofโฆ but is a good sum upโฆ
โBusiness Tactics and Business Strategyโ
You can make anything successful, make anything earn and make anything popular.
Whether it being a .sausage or a .ijustshitmypants
For every product, there are multipleeeee products that are the same.
For every niche, there is competition.
For every .com there is a .co
It is what it is.
The business can do one of 2 things:
1: Succeed
2: Fail
If you had: kja;ljfkbq;ourf;kjbqe;fkjbf.com
And I had the .io
Does that make your domain better?
NO.
You may like .coms betterโฆ sure.
BUT I LIKE MONEY.
So I am going to rank on search engines correctly, market correctly, advertise correctly, utilize the millions of ways to gain brand awareness for my .io
Start a business the right way and use effective business strategy and tacticsโฆ
Because at the end of the day.
That is what matters.
Proper execution of the BRAND.
And because of the fixation of other extensions, and the lack of knowledge the power of .ios haveโฆ resulting in global search, the new generations growing up on it, the brands that can be obtained and the realization that the .io is an opportunity sitting there KNOCKING on the door, giving you a chance and fresh start to become something bigโฆ and you choosing not to answer that doorโฆ because of stubbornness, lack of knowledge and experienceโฆ with the result of it being an outright bad business move.
Youโre going to pass on amazing opportunity and kick away the potential presented to you that can get you to the goal you have been trying to reach this whole time?
All because you choose to TALK. NOT WALK.
COMMENTS AND OPINIONS.
INNACCURATE AND NOT EDUCATED.
You might as well pass on making money and succeeding off of the color blue if that color was JUST introduced to the worldโฆ
All because you like the color pink, saw blue once, talked about blue once and decided you donโt like it.
Ridiculousโฆ
Iโm a movie maker.
Youโre a Movie Critic.
I make the film.
You sit back and watch.
Itโs business.
Put all personal feelings aside, unless you want to open a mom n pop shop because your neighbors loved your cookies and youโre passionate about them.
Other than thatโฆ
All I knowโฆ and all I care aboutโฆ
Is in the endโฆ
YOU WILL be clicking on many .ios in the future or most likely have already.
Business vs Personal.
This extension is better than that one!
No!
That one is better than this one!
How hard is this to comprehend?
.ios are Booming.
Whether you like it or not. Too freaknโ Bad.
Opportunity is sitting in front of you to establish a Million Dollar Brand with an amazing kw, and have what EVERYONE HAS BEEN AFTER THIS WHOLE TIMEโฆ
AND it can hit a Global Market.
NO BRAINER.
The average user/person clicks the links on the first page of google or the second.
The average user/person clicks what is shared on social media because itโs interesting or funny.
The average user/person does not know, yet alone give a flying SHIT, if the โdomain extensionโ is a .com, .co, .info orโฆ. a .kjdgkjdg
Itโs about the โwordโ, the โBrandโ and the Execution of Good Business Strategy.
If you start a business selling Pink Slippers.
PinkSlippers.io would do JUST GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
WAIT!!!!
WHAT!!!!!!
But PINK SLIPPERS is not TECH Related!!!!
THIS IS PREPOSTEROUS!
No. Indeed it is not.
What it isโฆ
Is an Amazing Chance for you to Obtain Something Normally Very Rare for your Pink Slipper Business, and dominate that niche and market with a rock solid brand your target market will love.
Your Market is people who have feet, who like the color pink, who like slippers and based on โmy experience, as a professional in not just Domainingโฆ but โBUSINESSโ, I wouldnโt do what some of the people who commented would doโฆ and that would probably be them targeting menโฆ I would do it right and target women first, then men, especially on the right holidays.
Soโฆ You just rocked PinkSlippers.io
BOOM!
SOLID FREAKING BRAND!
PINK FREAKIN SLIPPERS DOT EYE FREAKIN OHHHHHHH!!!!
WOOO!
Wouldnโt get that gnarly brand name without a .io!!!
Oh waitโฆ yea you could get the .comโฆ becauseโฆ ya knowโฆ itโs KING!!!!!
FOR $5,000.00 BECAUSE ITโS A PREMIUM REG!!!
But with a .ioโฆ
YOU JUST GRABBED A GREAT BRAND NAME FOR 35 BUCKS GIVE OR TAKE A FEW!!!
Nowโฆ you have the Brandโฆ
But the .ioโฆ.
Which seems to somehow be freakinโ Pi to some peopleโฆ
Is now what is holding you back.
Wellโฆ even though it DOES NOT MATTER and having that .io with that Solid kw/brand is only beneficial to youโฆ.
But If you are in the least bit worried about having the .io as your extensionโฆ
This is where you need to โget creativeโ and overcome that so called โProblemโ.
You are not trying to figure out the secret of life hereโฆ
Itโs much more simple.
Use Business!!! Strategy, Psychology!!!!
Itโs Simple!
They Know .io: โHey wanna try my Pink Slippers On?โ
They Donโt know .io: โYea sure!โ โWow these are comfortable!โ Whereโd yaโ get em???โ
They know .io: โI Ordered emโ from PinkSlippers.io!โ
They Donโt know .io: โWhat!? What is .io???โ
They know .io: โI guess it meansโฆ Input/Output. It makes sense on the video on their site, and it is really funny! Lol, my phones dead, so we canโt watch it, but hereโฆ Iโll just show you like this lol!โ โPut your foot in the slipperโ
They Donโt know .io: โokโ
They know .io: โOk now take it outโ
They Donโt know .io: โOkโ
They know .io: โnow put it back inโ
They Donโt know .io: โokโ
They know .io: โNow take it back outโ
They Donโt know .io: โLol, Okโ
They know .io: โAlrightโฆ now letโs go fast! When I say input, stick your foot in, and when I say output take it out!โ
They Donโt know .io: โHahaha Ok!โ
They know .io: โInputโ โOutputโ Inputโ โOutputโ Inputโ โOutputโ Inputโ โOutputโ Inputโ โOutputโ
They Donโt know .io: โLOL! My foot feels funny! What was the point of that??โ
They know .io: โWellโฆ what was more comfortable? Your foot in the Pink Slipper? Or your foot Out of the Pink Slipper?
They Officially know .io: โIn the Pink Slipper!โ
That person officially can CARE LESS about the .io extension and it just worked to my advantage because I just straight scolded their brain with my BRAND AND I Psychologically Embedded the word โSlippers in their Headโ to reference back to my awesome Pink Slipper Siteโฆ PinkSlippers.io
And if you are going to sayโฆ โwell itโs not input output, itโs Indian Oceanโ
Feel free to PM me and I will write your own personal dialog and provide you the solution for any niche you are in.
Iโll solve your version of Piโฆ sure.
Heckโฆ I would be VERY confident, based on Society today and the majority being caught up on day to day routine, working, struggling daily, doing their own thing, going home, eating, sleeping, consuming their life with social media, watching Netflix, waking up the next day and doing it again... making all future generations even more distracted by what is in front of them โespecially from a business capturing their market standpointโ Iโd be willing to put some of my Best Domains up and bet that there is a larger percent of people in the U.S and the WORLD in General, that cannot point out where the Indian Ocean is on a freaking map if it did not have words on it vs. the percentage that could.
The majority of people are not involved anyways, and hearing โit means Indian Oceanโ is by farโฆ the least of their worriesโฆ because within secondsโฆ they either just stop giving a shit about what it meant and hop to the alert on their facebook app to see what Stacy Just Posted and to Update their status about the fart they let out. Society is Consumed. As a Domainerโฆ You care about the extension. Or have your Opinion. But it is not about you. Itโs about your market. And Your Market will most likelyโฆ just go โOh. Hmm. Whatever. The Sites Bad ass and it has what I wantโ when or if the .io is brought up.
Go do some a/b testing.
I did.
And was spot on.
NONE OF THEM CARED!!!!
LITERALLY AT ALL!
It had what they wanted. And it was INFRONT OF THEM.
The Worldโฆ especially the U.Sโฆ is lazy.
Everyone wants whatever it is NOW NOW NOWWWW!!!!
If you knew business, you would know that there is a solution for everything and the only thing making โitโ not successful is your lack of knowledge, skillset, resentment to research, learn and you placing yourself in a field, industry and or position you do not belong in.
Everyone has their opinions. And that I fully and 100% respect and agree on.
But donโt argue with FACTS. The only time I argue with facts is when I am wrong with my Fiancรฉโ.
But when it comes to business. Know the facts, because many of your next moves are effected by them.
You cannot say .ioโs are not successful. You cannot say itโs a trend.
As much as I hate statisticsโฆ know the stats. And pleaseโฆ
If you are THROWING stats out there all wild and them being just outright wrongโฆ.
Or if you keep being a broken record with โ.coms will always be King and .ios have nothing on themโ
Pleaseโฆ tell us something we donโt already know.
.com is king. OBVIOUSLY.
Youโre acting like we just heard of Google this very day.
Do your research and Provide meaningful stats that back up your statement.
Donโt toss inโฆ
90% of shark attacks happen in shallow water.
NOOOOOOO SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.
If it wasnโt for boats, 100% of them would happen in shallow freaking water.
People swim there. Not in the middle of the ocean.
Everything you say, is as pointless, useless and as ridiculous as that.
If you were rightโฆ and not talking gibberishโฆ you would not be on this forum, because you have just disproven a major error in multiple systems that have been releasing false data about the insane rise of .ios throughout the past years on out and would be in a bidding war with some of the biggest companies out there, deciding to take the job with the Million Dollar sign on Bonus, or to take the Job that is going to relocate you to a fully paid villa on the beach, provide you a butler and give you Half the Sign on Bonus. And while doing thatโฆ CLEARLY only for funโฆ because why would you work? You just want all the companies to bid and see who offers the most at the end, then reject themโฆ I meanโฆ because we know you were not really going to actually take the once in a life time jobs being thrown at you, when you obviously can predict the future and grab a lotto ticket?
Oh waitโฆ
Nvm.
You just learned what a keyboard was, stuck out your 2 index fingers and started pushing keys simultaneously, very fast in a machine gun like motion, until somehowโฆ letters magically appeared on your screen, which is when you noticed โYAY! THE BIG BUTTON!โ and pushed that, realizing it parted the letters, spacing them out to form words, with the end result of making a sentence.
Then you pushed enter.
This to meโฆ is how your comments were formed.
For me to listen to those of you who state that crap, or for you to convince anyone on here who โactually knows what theyโre talking about, or provide such incorrect info that is negatively effecting other peopleโs financials โฆ just reminds us, as well as pin points exactlyโฆ yet ANOTHER reason this industry is getting bashed, damaged and clients โWEโ could have had, who just got screwed over by โYOUโ, which then made them fail.
You have a better chance of getting me to hold up 2 cards, with the one card saying yes and the other saying no. Directly in front of a monkey and whichever Curious George pointed at, would be my decision to light my money on fire or not that day.
Some people amaze me sometimesโฆ.
And NO.
You can use a .io for any site, not just tech sites. If you think this, then you listen to everything you read online, and that is notttttttt good.
And NO. You are not limited to the โIndian Oceanโ. You can go Global with any .io domain.
If there was a Cowboy Ocean, feel free to saddle your .io there as well.
Without copying and pasting the link everyone posts about โGoogle recognizes .io domains asโฆโ
Itโs simple to grasp this concept.
.io Domains can be rocked anywhere online. This is a MAJOR advantage that can increase exposure and brand awareness remarkably. Especially your earning potential.
Development is also limitless.
Youโre not limited to only Tech Related sites.
That doesnโt even make senseโฆ Financially, Creatively, Brand wise and just all around Business Wise.
There are tons of .io sites out there making great money that are not tech sites.
Both Startups and Established, with 2016 having some very serious .io businesses starting up, expanding, getting invested in, being bought out, as well as 2016 being the Biggest year the App Stores are seeing with, .ioโs marching in hardcore.
Accept it. It is what it is.
No one is forcing you to buy a .io or even to click on one.
But guess what?
You will eventually be clicking on them, againโฆ if you havenโt already.
So put your dislikes and personal feelings aside and stop giving others bad business advice.
Youโre only showing your lack of knowledge, lack of experience and lack of business sense.
This is Business. Not personal.
The best part isโฆ
I had time to right thisโฆ because I did pretty well with .io sales last month selling .io domains and .io sitesโฆ
So to end thisโฆ
Iโm gonna go take my 2nd poop today, then go play some guitar on the beach with a little bit of casting the olโ pole from the shore line.
io io off the way I go
