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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

br.io, mercur.io etc.

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

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

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.

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