[unalone]

It's more fun listening to people who try to pronounce the periods.

Del-dot-issio-dot-us.

Or, my favorite, a friend who pronounced periods by coughing. We kept offering him water.

It's a bit ridiculous that icio.us was never set to redirect, though. What a waste of a domain name. Unless there's a good SEO reason to do that?

[joshu]

delicious.com has redirected to del.icio.us for several years now.

I never changed it because the most active part of the userbase liked it.

[jacobbijani]

That's what's crazy about HN. You have to be careful what you say, because even the founders of sites as big as delicious post here...

Anyway, I think you misread the comment. How come just "icio.us" (no del subdomain) doesn't redirect to the full del.icio.us?

[joshu]

Never occured to me. Why bother?

Way back there was a second copy of delicious set up at susp.icio.us for testing, but I had to take it down as people were using it.

[unalone]

To be honest, mostly laziness. Probably not a good enough line of reasoning.

And I agree with above: I'm always amazed at the sorts of people that read HN.

[jacobbijani]

I guess just for consistency's sake. And so people like me can see what happens when you take off the subdomain :)