So what’s with all the .io domains. Is it clever that you know i/o stands for input/output? Is it cool that you have a website somewhat related to technology so you register a .io domain. Has most of GitHub moved to the British Indian Ocean Territory to have .io this and .io that? Atom.io, github.io, etc. etc. Is a .com, .net or a .org just not good enough.

This has also led to a bit of a clutter of frameworks hitting the web all with .io. Is it just cool? Is it tacky? I don’t think it necessarily bothers me, but it made me notice it enough to warrant a blog post. I suppose I’m more curious as to why the .com, .net, .org, or .us aren’t enough. Especially since the entire purpose of country specific TLDs was to have URLs specific to that country. Now, instead of country specific websites, we just have “clever” websites where people think, “oh I like this song, ‘whip it’, so I’ll register whip.it, even tho .it is really supposed to be for Italy specific websites.” I know there’s nothing that mandates it as law, but still it is called country code top-level domain for a reason. Additionally, what’s categorization if we put salt in containers marked “sugar” and pepper in containers marked “salt”?

But when all that’s said, guess I’d still register something catchy. 🙂