Can I buy a .io domain name? What are the advantages of buying a .io domain name?

As the io country suffix domain name has attracted more and more attention from domestic and foreign Internet developers and domain name investors, many Internet innovation and startup companies and open source project homepages prefer io domain names as official websites. Today we will discuss whether the io domain name is suitable for purchase and what are the advantages of purchasing the io domain name?

The .io domain name is the abbreviation of the British Indian Ocean Territory (British Indian Ocean Territory). The British Indian Ocean Territory has a land area of 60 square kilometers and a surrounding water area of 54,400 square kilometers. The .io domain name is the top-level domain name suffix of the British Indian Ocean country and was allocated for use in 1997.

For Internet startups, as a developer, the io country domain name can be understood as input, output, which means "input and output interface". At the same time, for all people in the world, .io is also the most direct and intuitive symbol that can be used to represent information and knowledge on the Internet. This series of advantages makes the io domain name value gradually become a new global domain name. There is no restriction on the registration qualifications of the io domain name. Enterprises or individuals in any country can register it, which makes the io domain name more supported by international users.

At present, more and more Internet companies in China have begun to use io domain names, such as jianshu.io, pangu.io, toutiao.io, zhuge.io, etc. Moreover, .io is the same as the abbreviation of input/output in computer/programming, so it is very suitable for open source projects. In addition, compared with top-level domain names such as .com, which have been around for a long time, .io has more resources and more choices, and it is short and easy to remember.