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Show HN: three.io = available 3 letter .io domains

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I thought I'd spend a few lines in irb and implement two.io for you right here in a comment ;-) Here are the available two letter io names from /usr/share/dict/words, /usr/bin commands, and bash builtins:

ah.io, ay.io, di.io, ea.io, ey.io, fa.io, fc.io, fe.io, fg.io, ha.io, he.io, ju.io, ka.io, oe.io, or.io, ow.io, pu.io, ra.io, te.io, ti.io, tu.io, ut.io, wa.io, wi.io, wu.io, wy.io, ya.io, ym.io, yn.io, yr.io, du.io, ld.io, lp.io, m4.io, nm.io, wc.io

UPDATE: It just struck me that two letter domains might be rather hard to register. I'm looking at the T&Cs now. It is notable how many are marked as being registered in the WHOIS though.

UPDATE 2: Neither of the third party registrars I tried allowed two letter .io domains but the central nic.io does.

UPDATE 3: I visited rb.io (which I wanted ;-)) and found this blog post of just a cpl weeks ago on the same topic: http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/two-letter-io-domains-ava...

It's pretty rare a NIC allows two letter domains so it might be a general limitation, but they are possible. Either that, or our domain (ep) is just a very persistent hallucination.

Isn't everything? ;-) Thanks for the heads up. It does seem nic.io will do it but both Moniker and IWantMyName barfed on them.

I'm tempted but I already own "no.gd" (a rather undiscovered TLD if there were one - and they allow 2 letter domains!) and have little enough use for it already..

There are quite a few TLDs offering 2-letter domains. These are the ones that can be registered without any restrictions:

.AG .CX .GD .GS .GL .HT .LC .MS .MU .PE .TC .TL .VG

Also see http://iwantmyname.com/short-domain-search

Thanks! This is very useful.

I also heard about .gg and .je (Guernsey and Jersey - British Crown Dependencies off of the French coast) which can be registered directly at http://www.channelisles.net/applic/application.shtml (but they handle them manually so you have to wait a few days).

Nice! Yeah, I checked nic.io for ag.io and lost.

This would be awesome if you could combine the list with availability of <xxx>io.com -- to know when you could get both the shorter <xxx>.io and the traditional .com

That's a good point, I may be able to implement that this evening.

Edit: Right now iwantmyname.com is too bogged down for me to get the data... :) I'll have to wait a bit

Yep, we're working on it. Sorry for the problems.

Update

Site performance should be much better again. Now having an issue with our domain search due to too many connections.

Let the domain squatting begin. =P

Honestly though, at least its a $100 to register. At that price hopefully it will deter a lot of squatters from buying up all the domains. "For GBP 60 (approx US$ 100) for year one and GBP 30 (approx US$ 50) per year thereafter." (http://www.nic.io/)

Shame, eie.io is gone

[Edit: I stole this idea from PowerPC, which has an eieio (Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O) instruction]

That was probably the first .io domain registered.

That or... Rad.io Rat.io Portfol.io etc..

fellat

Still up for grabs, unlike cunniling.us

I'm too cheap to get it, but I think that threep.io is a perfect domain... ;)

Sorry, I registered it. Once the process is finished it will join my nerd-flock and redirect to my professional site unless I decide to make something for it. :)

Very cool, added you to http://domaingroovy.com

We launched Rewordious a few weeks ago, do you think you could add us?

http://www.rewordio.us

Added. Cool project, I especially like the [keyword] part.

Thanks, nice idea.

Two-letter ones are 'cooler' - we grabbed ep.io a few months back - but the NIC don't allow language or country codes as two letter domains, IIRC. Still, there's plenty left, as petercooper's comment says.

Seems like got.io would be kind of cool for someone specializing in high speed storage. Thanks for posting, I'm enjoying trying to come up with ideas based on the names alone.

I know, it is kinda fun.

Excellent!

Could you add a check for the name as a .com? For example, next to ace.io display "+.com" for available or "x .com" for unavailable.

[Edit: I noticed these are checked just once per day. Perhaps add a link to check the .com? As in, ace.io 2011-02-15 (aceio.com?) with aceio.com linked to http://iwantmyname.com/search?domain=aceio.com ]

Yes, I think thats a good idea. I can add that in later this afternoon.

General question about anyones experience with domains that done end in .com

How hard coded is the .com extensions when it comes to the general public these days (your mom/uncle who just uses the internet to read email, if that much)? If you told someone your domain was foobar.io and you ask them to repeat the domain would they say foobario.com?

Some people still do, yes. I usually avoid giving them verbally to anyone non-technical. Giving them in writing is never a problem.

Cool utility. Surprised at how many three letter domains are still left.

Guess they'll be going away more quickly now...

and those are just the ones that correspond to english words.

If every 2/3 letter combination were available as a tld, you would have 320,797,152 3-letter domains . . .

I'd like to see some kind of analysis of how many WORD.xx domains are actually in use, just to get an idea of whether the cyber-squatting market is due for a correction.

I agree it would be very interesting to see that analysis. What do you mean by a correction?

I mean the cost of buying a domain from a squatter could presumably go down.

Some feature requests: 1) add a realtime search function OR a way to navigate by letter

2) add an input that allows me to choose 3,4,5,6 letter domains.i know that's not the focus of the site, but still. would be cool.

Also, are you getting any kind of referral fee for sending over customers? hope so!

The last I looked (a couple of months ago) there were still a lot of 2 letter domains available on .io. Has that changed?

[Edit: Nevermind, I see that this is using 3 letter words, not just any 3 letter combination]

Ended up here: http://three.io/three_letter_words?page=3, and got an error. Might want to check your rails' production log :P

Thanks!

Hey, if you buy one of these domain names please let me know!

I got ace.io and zidy.io both from iwantmyname.com

My normal registrar doesn't handle .io so it's my first time with the iwantmyname.com registrar. They seem pretty on top of things.

How long does it take nic.io to update their DNS Servers? I just checked a bunch of the ones listed here and they are all unresolved...

I bought rap.io

But now I don't know what to build there. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2228700

Perfect! I'm tired of explaining my goofy email address to people. Thank you for the solution!

What registrars sell .IO domains?

http://www.nic.io/new.html

Just don't use Moniker in this case as their dates mismatch and can cause trouble: http://peterc.org/blog/2010/345-moniker-deactivation.html

Hmm; they list Gandi as one of their registrars, but no .IO domains are shown in Gandi-originated searches. (Opening another $40/year account with a new, unfamiliar registry increases the effective cost of these domains significantly.)

Saw ass.io and giggled. Hehehe.

I did too, had to stop myself from spending the $75 on something I definitely didn't need :)

Looks like it has already been registered, but it's worth noting that the .io TOS includes:

No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nation.

Isn't the .io TLD too technical of a term for a non-tech site ?

I wanted sum.io, but I was too slow. Did anybody here get it?

I now registered pie.io instead. I hope I didn't waste another 70€ on domain squatting...

Here is my idea: simple polls for Twitter. There is twtpoll, but it is not actually very good in my opinion.

The pie will hopefully remind people of pie charts... Also, it allows for the tag line "polls easy as pie".

What do you think?

Would welcome feedback, also perhaps suggestions for better names (it is difficult for non-native speakers).

Heh, I tried, too. Managed to snag gum.io though.

Damn. eie.io has gone

cat /usr/share/dict/* | perl -ne's/io$/.io/ && print lc if length == 6'

$ for domain in `cat /usr/share/dict/* | perl -ne's/io$/.io/ && print lc if length == 6'` ; do whois $domain | grep "\- Available" ; done Domain "DUR.IO" - Available Domain "DUS.IO" - Available Domain "FER.IO" - Available Domain "GOB.IO" - Available Domain "IDD.IO" - Available Domain "KOK.IO" - Available Domain "NGA.IO" - Available Domain "PAP.IO" - Available Domain "SOD.IO" - Available Domain "TUR.IO" - Available Domain "DUR.IO" - Available Domain "DUS.IO" - Available Domain "FER.IO" - Available Domain "GOB.IO" - Available Domain "IDD.IO" - Available Domain "KOK.IO" - Available Domain "NGA.IO" - Available Domain "PAP.IO" - Available Domain "SOD.IO" - Available Domain "TUR.IO" - Available

spy.io -- Thanks!

Sweet! Glad you got it!

fix.io and try.io, Thanks

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