.io .io Thread and Showcase

[mrcurly]

Bought a new .io domain through sedo last week a NN.io , bit of an investment and gamble but worth a shot in my opinion.

Anyone investing in .io domains? please feel free to share your investments.

Cheers

 

[wcpthree]

do the godaddy promo codes work for io?

Yes

 

[mhdoc]

From an end user perspective, why would I want to buy and develop a .io instead of a .com?

 

[Sukhvir-Singh]

From an end user perspective, why would I want to buy and develop a .io instead of a .com?

If you can buy and develop songs.io by purchasing it $500 or so. Its rather difficult to buy songs.com to buy. Dont you think so?

 

[mhdoc]

If, for example, songs.com is not developed (many great domains 90% maybe are just parked) I still wouln't want to put much time/money in to songs.io because any time the .com was developed I would be out of business.
But maybe this is just me.

 

[JudgeMind]

yes .io domains are a worthy investment. I had hand regged holograms.io a few months ago and sold to someone here on NP for $1,050, a good deal for them, but i needed the cash and ended up buying 5 more .io names, including FiberOptic.io

 

[imadoer]

do you think only technology domains are worth buying in io?

 

[wcpthree]

do you think only technology domains are worth buying in io?

That's a very good question. Appearantly io has many meanings. I have a one word domain that I think I'm either going to sell to a company or hold a few years til they get bought up.

 

[mhdoc]

Is part of the attraction of .io that it is, as far as I know, not attached to a specific piece of the planet and thus less likely to be subject to political whims?

 

[JudgeMind]

currently i would focus on tech related .io domains.

 

[Wisename]

what are different between end user and start up?

 

[JudgeMind]

what are different between end user and start up?

same thing imo

 

[interassets]

.io in my opinion is something related to the IO in digital format. Digital is made up of 1s & 0s... this is where I assume the value is and why they're doing well with tech companies.

 

[mhdoc]

In my mind startup implies more funding, more staff and more scope to their plans. I consider myself more of an end user in that I buy to develop for myself and a very small number of customers.

 

[mhdoc]

"Digital is made up of 1s & 0s..."

That would never have occured to me I was thinking more that so many good names .coms are tied up but unused and/or so expensive, that some tech startups are using these others. If succesful they grow so fast traffic loss to the .com may not be important,

 

[Wisename]

same thing imo

thanks for answered. imo "startup" have no business already.. end user have a established company. so where we can find start up? my thought end user not interested in .io extension.. they want a .com .

 

[imadoer]

is the io extension good for parking i found a good 5 letter word with over 500k avg searches

 

[Wisename]

thanks for answered. imo "startup" have no business already.. end user have a established company. so where we can find start up? my thought end user not interested in .io extension.. they want a .com .

its sounds like i'm answering my own question.. :p

 

[DU]

I had hand regged holograms.io a few months ago and sold to someone here on NP for $1,050, a good deal for them

How is spending $1,050 on a name you regged a few months ago a good deal for them? For you, yes.

 

[DU]

is the io extension good for parking i found a good 5 letter word with over 500k avg searches

Why would anyone type in good word .io?

 

[chloe321]

Google has stated that domain extensions would have no impact on SEO ranking - https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/4VaWg4TMM5F

Which means, theoretically, a .io has as good a chance in ranking on Google as a .com.

So, I think, for a startup or a business owner, it makes more sense to get a category domain - for examples shoes.io for xx,xxx rather than shoes.com for 1 million and spend that money on marketing and in biz development.