Comment by jeremymcanally
13 years ago
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™.
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.
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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://answers.onstartups.com/questions/18209/whats-with-sta...
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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