[purephase]

nic.io must be tickled pink. Queue the land grab!

In other words, I'm not sure this is a good thing or sets a good precedent. I understand the rationale as they're just reacting to what the industry is doing (I'm looking at you GH) but I imagine we'll see more of this in the future.

I say all this as a (legitimate) .io domain holder.

Somewhere there is a bailiwick just waiting for the crafting community to jump all over it.

[adanto6840]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly...

I've got to think that they'll see a pretty big influx of .io registrations today & over the next few days, I'm sure they're thrilled.

I also have the same reservations too, though -- although I applaud the reaction & speed, a big part of me wonders if it's really best suited for decisions like this.

What happens when some other TLD needs to be re-categorized the same? Where does it stop?

Is there any precedent to Google removing a domain from their 'gccTLD' list?

That'd be more scary / have a bigger potential impact on people I'd assume -- although I suppose they could just 'tweak' the TLD to not rank quite as high without doing as much publicly like this perhaps...

[jevinskie]

I'm interested in your relation to the territories, if you don't mind me asking?

[purephase]

I meant that I have a domain name that I'm using for a legitimate service that I purchased knowing that it wasn't a gccTLD. My "legitimate" comment was specifically related to the influx of squatters we're about to see in this space.

[jqueryin]

I believe it's also a good preparation for the domain extensions that'll be releasing out in the wild later this year. There's hundreds in contention. It could heavily factor into Google's "Did you mean domain.com?" handling where they assume you searched incorrectly for an alternate gTLD, cTLD, or ccTLD in some cases.

[TorKlingberg]

The precedent was already set when Google created the concept of gccTLDs with .fm, .nu, .tv, .tk, .ws, etc.

[evaneykelen]

Just recently these names were still available while checking names for a project: feature.io, using.io, edges.io, advan.io, gains.io, plain.io, dest.io and nippy.io. I haven't checked if they were still available as of today so YMMV.

[Gertig]

I've been tracking three letter word .io domain names for almost 2 years now and there has definitely been a recent spike in registrations.

[derleth]

> Queue the land grab!

The use of the word 'cue' in this context is really dead, isn't it?

[qu4z-2]

I assume we're doing the land grab once we've sorted out all the other important things we've got to do first :)

[purephase]

Good on you. Got me to laugh on a Tuesday morning when I've been neck-deep in troubleshooting Redis.