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I've always found the .io domain somewhat laughable for tech companies. Maybe its popularity was fueld by Google's I/O conference.

But except of legal affairs the climate crisis is the next reason not to rely on this domain. If the humanity continues its course the ".io island" will soon be under water.

To me, it always seemed like a semi-jokey domain in the way solo developers used to have "Made with [heart/coffee emoji] in San Francisco" on the footer of their personal websites.

Solo developers? Don't big companies like AirBnB do that?

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