.io Domains
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The two letters that became tech's home address — input/output to developers, credibility to investors. Registered instantly, resolving in minutes, connected to hosting before your coffee cools. Register from $39.99/yr — searched, priced and live in one visit.
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The Extension
Why .io?
.io started as a country-code quirk and became an industry convention: to a technical audience the input/output reading is immediate, and a decade of startups, tools and APIs has made it the extension that signals 'built by people who ship'. Short names are still findable on .io long after the equivalent .com has gone.
Google treats .io as a generic extension rather than geotargeting it, so it ranks globally like a .com. Registration here is immediate, DNS serves from anycast nameservers at once, and WHOIS privacy is included — your project goes public without your personal details doing the same.
Good Fit
.io works best for
- Startups and SaaS products
- Developer tools, APIs and documentation
- Technical blogs and portfolios
- Products whose name is taken on .com but free on .io
What You Get
Included with every domain
Instant tech credibility
A decade of convention means a .io address tells a technical audience what kind of product to expect.
Globally generic in search
Google treats .io as a generic TLD, so it targets the world by default rather than one country.
Live in one visit
Immediate registration, anycast DNS from minute one, and hosting connected in the same session.
Common Questions
Questions about .io
Can anyone register a .io domain?
Yes — although .io is technically a country-code TLD, it is operated as an open extension with no residency requirements. Anyone, anywhere can register and manage one exactly like a generic TLD.
Is .io safe to build a business on long-term?
Registrations continue as normal and the extension remains fully operational. Sovereignty changes over the territory prompted questions about its far future, but ccTLD transitions run on multi-year timescales with long notice periods — no overnight change is possible under the policies that govern them. Registering the matching name on a second TLD is cheap insurance if you want it.
Does .io rank worse than .com in Google?
No. Google classifies .io as a generic TLD, so it carries no country restriction and no ranking penalty. Position follows content, links and performance — the suffix is neutral.
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