What's the attraction of the .io domain? Seeing it crop up in many places and I'm not sure what the significance is.
Even the businesses that that use it and are less tech-heavy in business model tend to be web- and/or mobile-first type companies from what I've seen...
I jumped in in 2009, and basically had my pick of 2-letter domains.
for i in `egrep '^[a-z]{3}$' /usr/share/dict/words`
do
whois $i.io | grep -q '\- Available' && echo $i.io
done
for i in {a..z}{a..z}.io
do
whois $i | grep -q '\- Available' && echo $i
done
iz.io
jy.io
kf.io
kq.io
lq.io
qf.io
qg.io
qj.io
qo.io
qs.io
qy.io
uj.io
yd.io
yl.io
yz.io
I worked on this project a while back and posted the list for free for over a year, not sure why it's a sin to charge money for it now.
Just off the top of my head.