.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

 

[kn65]

Wrong Thread !

Where should I put it?

 

[morf13]

I grabbed these .io domains

BLACKFRIDAYSALES.io
FUELCELL.io
CHRISTMASEVE.io
PAWG.io

 

[Wisename]

Where should I put it?

put it at np marketplace thread..

 

[Wisename]

just reported.

angel.io sold for $1150

 

[morf13]

I added these single word domains:

UNFINISHED.IO
BIOLOGICAL.IO
CONTROLLERS.IO

 

[Wisename]

I added these single word domains:

UNFINISHED.IO
BIOLOGICAL.IO
CONTROLLERS.IO

best of luck with it......................

 

[DU]

I grabbed these .io domains
BLACKFRIDAYSALES.io
FUELCELL.io
CHRISTMASEVE.io
PAWG.io

I added these single word domains:
UNFINISHED.IO
BIOLOGICAL.IO
CONTROLLERS.IO

I would suggest that now would be a good time to slow down with the registrations.....

 

[morf13]

I would suggest that now would be a good time to slow down with the registrations.....

I did slow down, I grabbed 11 in all, some solid one word dictionary words, some being related to the tech & science industries, some of which were really big in .com extension. I am going to list them for sale or auction maybe one at a time and see what happens. Maybe I will get more .io, maybe not

 

[Josh R]

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

Completely agree. Not a good deal at all... amazing deal for seller though..

 

[m-i-k-e]

Completely agree. Not a good deal at all... amazing deal for seller though..

What's the bad part of the deal in your opinion? Do you not like the name or are you put off by the reg date?

I don't think the reg date should have any influence on the value of a domain to a buyer.

 

[DU]

What's the bad part of the deal in your opinion? Do you not like the name or are you put off by the reg date?

I don't think the reg date should have any influence on the value of a domain to a buyer.

My point was that any completed deal for profit is a good deal. I think the name has fairly high $ risk in it. There have been a flurry of .io sales recently but many in the low XXX range and some in the mid X,XXX. That makes spending $1000 on an emerging technology on a "hot" extension risky, imho. It doesn't to me make it a bad deal for the buyer and I'm sure Keith knows what he's doing ... but it becomes a good deal if / when he sells it for more, imho.

Given that JM said he needed the money - should have gone lower

 

[equity78]

Actually .io is no longer a ccTLD it is a gTLD

That is false, all two letter extensions are country codes, they can be repurposed but they are cctlds and not gtlds.

 

[Wisename]

I did slow down, I grabbed 11 in all, some solid one word dictionary words, some being related to the tech & science industries, some of which were really big in .com extension. I am going to list them for sale or auction maybe one at a time and see what happens. Maybe I will get more .io, maybe not

sell it as bargains..

 

[kn65]

That is false, all two letter extensions are country codes, they can be repurposed but they are cctlds and not gtlds.

Normally yes, but in this particular case Google considers .io a gTLD, there is some history behind it I suggest you research it. If Google says it is, I say it is too.

 

[DU]

Normally yes, but in this particular case Google considers .io a gTLD, there is some history behind it I suggest you research it. If Google says it is, I say it is too.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?
Four.

Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

I suggest you research it. If Google says it is, I say it is too.

When it comes to domains, I'd take Ray's word over Google's most of the time.

 

[equity78]

Normally yes, but in this particular case Google considers .io a gTLD, there is some history behind it I suggest you research it. If Google says it is, I say it is too.

No it is the same thing with .TV, Me and .CO different governing bodies determine that. If you want to say how Google treats them so they are not geographically targeted to just the Indian Ocean, that is correct, same with .TV is not just Tuvalu, .CO Colombia or .ME Montenegro. But the extensions remain country codes, as big as Google is they have no governing power on that.

 

[kn65]

No it is the same thing with .TV, Me and .CO different governing bodies determine that. If you want to say how Google treats them so they are not geographically targeted to just the Indian Ocean, that is correct, same with .TV is not just Tuvalu, .CO Colombia or .ME Montenegro. But the extensions remain country codes, as big as Google is they have no governing power on that.

I didn't say that Google has governing power, I said Google considers them as a gTLD.

 

[kn65]

Why do I get the sense that people on this forum just like to argue for the sake or arguing, some of you guys seem to be too tense, don't read the posts thoroughly, what's going on?

 

[discobull]

I didn't say that Google has governing power, I said Google considers them as a gTLD.

To be fair, what you originally wrote was "Actually .io is no longer a ccTLD it is a gTLD". There's nothing in there about Google.

 

[kn65]

To be fair, what you originally wrote was "Actually .io is no longer a ccTLD it is a gTLD". There's nothing in there about Google.

I did say that but didn't mention anything about governing powers, is that fair?I also mentioned Google in another post further down.

.io is a defacto gTLD, that's basically what I'm saying, and we all know what 'defacto' means.