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by josteink 4781 days ago
Not entirely accurate.

That all happened after hipsters squatting these domains cried Google a whaaambulance over not getting the search-rank they felt they "deserved".

Something else made these utterly pointless domains popular before that, but what that was, I don't know.

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> Something else made these utterly pointless domains popular before that, but what that was, I don't know.

Possibly 'io' being short for input/output. The first .io domains I remember were some programmer blogs/personal sites. Now they are just over used.