[jfernandez]

"...its possiblities for domain hacks..."

Ok I'll admit it, I'm a little lost. What do they mean by this?

[yannickmahe]

Companies will get .io domains to appeal to developers as it looks like I/O (in/out).

[talles]

Or for using it with words ended with "io" (like scenar.io, portfol.io and such)

[MichaelGG]

Does 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]

Usually 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]

Off topic, but I'm curious what kind of data mining the VC has you doing.

[jfernandez]

Ok 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.

[forgottenpass]

mildly clever + has something to do with computers = lets call it a hack

[ForHackernews]

br.io, mercur.io etc.

[amelius]

I'll just buy the TLD ".rio", and have "b.rio" and "mercu.rio". I don't understand the big deal here.

[Argorak]

For .rio, you need an address in Rio. Often, this is rather strongly enforced, see .ie and .cat for other examples.

[duskwuff]

Requirements 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.