Stream: general

Topic: .io domains

Don MacKinnon (Oct 08 2024 at 21:22):

It looks like the .io TLD may soon cease to exist. If this happens it's going to affect a looooot of domains https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

Al Gonzalez (Oct 08 2024 at 23:41):

That will be painfully interesting to watch! Although it seems like there isn't an official announcement yet.

Nabeel S (Oct 09 2024 at 14:12):

I'd be surprised if they let it die. Too much vested interest.

AJ Kerrigan (Oct 09 2024 at 14:42):

yeah intuitively it _feels_ like a global tld :shrug: . and the world runs on vibes right? :sweat_smile:

Adam Stacoviak (Oct 09 2024 at 15:00):

Now we can’t even rely on a TLD??

Daniel Buckmaster (Oct 09 2024 at 19:36):

Maybe they will make the "I/O" meaning of the domain official, just like any other novelty tld!

Matthew Sanabria (Oct 10 2024 at 03:10):

Adam Stacoviak said:

Now we can’t even rely on a TLD??

Honestly you never could rely on a TLD. All of them are owned and operated by some entity. I personally always stayed away from country TLDs because of reasons like this. Granted .io will probably be fine but I'll stick to other non-country TLDs for my things.

Jerod Santo (Oct 10 2024 at 14:02):

I wanted changelog.af as the vanity domain for Changelog And Friends but I wasn't about to go messing with Afghanistan to make that happen... :grimacing:

Dustin (Oct 10 2024 at 18:44):

I never remember it's Changelog.com and always go to Changelog.fm

Jeff Henson (Oct 11 2024 at 22:03):

I use an io domain as my primary email address. I have a couple of domains on other tlds that I could switch to but I hope it ends up sticking around. Having to go through and change my email address for everything would be very annoying :oh_no:

I wish we had a way to have an email address that was independent of any one company or government.

Matthew Sanabria (Oct 18 2024 at 17:47):

Agreed. I use .email for my email and it's great but some places don't support it.

Brian Fulton (Oct 23 2024 at 18:53):

Jerod Santo said:

I wanted changelog.af as the vanity domain for Changelog And Friends but I wasn't about to go messing with Afghanistan to make that happen... :grimacing:

I heard last week, you wanted the domain "sant.io",.... I see it just updated on the 17'th
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also if you want it bad enough,....
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Jerod Santo (Oct 23 2024 at 18:59):

Close! What I actually want is san.to, which is still owned but unused (just checked again) :sob:

Andrei Jiroh Halili (Oct 24 2024 at 16:05):

I don't have any .io domains lying around although I'm in transition from a .xyz to a .dev domain (I got 7 years of free domain renewal via Arcade but I'll adding another year via registrar transfer to Cloudflare Registar soon).

Andrei Jiroh Halili (Oct 24 2024 at 16:06):

context: andreijiroh.xyz -> andreijiroh.dev

Last updated: Dec 12 2024 at 15:40 UTC