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Exchanging a .COM for a .IO Digital Presence

September 28, 2018 by Alvin Brown

From Slither.io to Clothes.io to CodePen.io to a growing list of personal and company brands, .io domains have become the darling domain of tech startups and domain investors.

The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for .io was originally assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory before tech world dubbed it “input/output” domain for the next great tech idea.

There have been and are many tech startups using a .io domain to brand their digital presence.

I recently interviewed one such startup’s co-founder, Ryan Evans — a long-time serial entrepreneur and co-founder of a web analytics startup named Tend.io.

In my latest podcast episode, Ryan and I discuss the the following aspects and impact of building a .io digital presence:

  • His early dabbling with investing in keyword and exact match domains
  • The various ventures that lead to starting Tend
  • Why Tend choose to use .io versus .com
  • How Tend.io was a “steal-of-a-deal” purchase

So, press play and listen to Ryan share his journey about how Tend.io helps companies find more qualified customers.  Thanks and that’s all for now!

 

Originally published on KickstartCommerce.com

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Filed Under: Domain trends, KickstartCommerce

About Alvin Brown

He’s an experienced and passionate serial entrepreneur and founder of Kickstart Commerce. Alvin possesses a great love for startups dominating their market using profitable internet marketing and domain name strategies for greater commerce.

Comments

  1. Rob says

    September 28, 2018 at 5:26 pm

    “.io” seems to be a temporary replacement for “.com” with certain tech startups, with limited budgets, that want an immediate presence in the world-wide-web.

    If said startups eventually gain funding or are acquired, they need to re-brand with a “.com” in order to effectively scale and reach their full potential internationally.

    That being said, ElectronicSports.io is currently available for sale.

    • MG says

      September 28, 2018 at 10:43 pm

      ElectronicSports.io ? Not even worth the $30 .io reg fee !

  2. John says

    September 28, 2018 at 7:04 pm

    .io is garbage and only used when .com not available.

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