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We own a lot of TLD's for GitHub, but we just settled on this one for no real reason other than it sounded nice (i.e., not because it's hip).

We also considered http://github.me and a few others, but thought this one worked well and was short without sounding like we were trying to make a mid-90's Personal Home Page Product™.

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Interesting that .me is already considered as being old-fashioned. It only launched a few years ago... :)

Now if we could only get Google to see .io as a "generic" TLD: https://iwantmyname.com/blog/2012/08/dear-google-please-add-...

Agreed, this seems like a weird shortcoming on their part. Not clear how best to get the message to Google, though.

Google heard the message but apparently their data suggests otherwise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q... – which is really hard to believe in regards to .io domains.

Yeah, that's goofy. Nothing that Matt Cutts is saying in that video makes any sense at all with respect to .io.

Interesting, I wasn't aware of this.

You guys should file to have a 'hub' TLD added, then you'd have the ultimate domain - git.hub

Then you might as well buy the .github TLD and give everyone their own yourpagename.github url.

That doesn't look aesthetically pleasing to me..

I have to admit, .io is probably one of the best geeky TLD's out there, so I can't fault you really. It just seems kind of trendy is all.

> without sounding like we were trying to make a mid-90's Personal Home Page Product™

That's not a dig on PHP is it? :)

I like that the pricing keeps out a lot of the squatting riff-raff you see in com/net/org/info etc... I like .info too, but it's been abused.

It's also easier to find a relatively short/applicable tld.

It's strange that I've never heard of .io until github.io. What else am I missing out on? :(

For the past year or 2 I've been seeing more and more of them. However, I don't have any bookmarked, at least not yet. I found a pretty good time-waster[3] where I may end up with some. I found one here on HN[2] too....might be more. Also found a relevant question on a StackExchange[3] site.

1. http://domaintyper.com/top-websites/most-popular-websites-wi...

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4920233

3. http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/18209/whats-with-sta...

Thanks!

http://crashlog.io a real time exception handler for one.

FWIW, I have git.to if you're interested in taking it.

URL shortener for rednecks?

Awesome, GitHub can make their own URL shortening service and replace all links in every README/Issue/Pull Request with short urls!

They already have http://git.io

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