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"...its possiblities for domain hacks..." Ok I'll admit it, I'm a little lost. What do they mean by this?
by jfernandez 11y ago
"...its possiblities for domain hacks..."
Ok I'll admit it, I'm a little lost. What do they mean by this?
- yannickmahe 11y agoCompanies will get .io domains to appeal to developers as it looks like I/O (in/out).
- jfernandez 11y agoOk cool, I knew that part...phew. I thought they were referring to something fundamental to the way the TLD worked etc. that they were fiddling with.
- talles 11y agoOr for using it with words ended with "io" (like scenar.io, portfol.io and such)
- MichaelGG 11y agoDoes this work well? A friend did that for his company and it was a real pain to explain that the last two letters of a full word have a dot first. Ended up getting the .com. I've got ci.al (so.ci.al, fa.ci.al, etc), I think, but trying to tell someone that over voice seems... problematic.
- mortehu 11y agoUsually startups using this kind of domain end up moving to .com once they get funded. I do data mining for a VC, and see this all the time.
- richardbrevig 11y agoOff topic, but I'm curious what kind of data mining the VC has you doing.
- ForHackernews 11y agobr.io, mercur.io etc.
- amelius 11y agoI'll just buy the TLD ".rio", and have "b.rio" and "mercu.rio". I don't understand the big deal here.
- Argorak 11y agoFor .rio, you need an address in Rio. Often, this is rather strongly enforced, see .ie and .cat for other examples.
- duskwuff 11y agoRequirements for .cat are easily gamed. You need some "Catalan content" on your site, but this can be as little as a single page. Or see nyan.cat for a humorous implementation.
- forgottenpass 11y agomildly clever + has something to do with computers = lets call it a hack