Show HN: three.io = available 3 letter .io domains

I thought I'd spend a few lines in irb and implement two.io for you right here in a comment ;-) Here are the available two letter io names from /usr/share/dict/words, /usr/bin commands, and bash builtins:<p>ah.io, ay.io, di.io, ea.io, ey.io, fa.io, fc.io, fe.io, fg.io, ha.io, he.io, ju.io, ka.io, oe.io, or.io, ow.io, pu.io, ra.io, te.io, ti.io, tu.io, ut.io, wa.io, wi.io, wu.io, wy.io, ya.io, ym.io, yn.io, yr.io, du.io, ld.io, lp.io, m4.io, nm.io, wc.io<p>UPDATE: It just struck me that two letter domains might be rather hard to register. I'm looking at the T&#38;Cs now. It is notable how many <i>are</i> marked as being registered in the WHOIS though.<p>UPDATE 2: Neither of the third party registrars I tried allowed two letter .io domains but the central nic.io does.<p>UPDATE 3: I visited rb.io (which I wanted ;-)) and found this blog post of just a cpl weeks ago on the same topic: <a href="http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/two-letter-io-domains-available" rel="nofollow">http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/two-letter-io-domains-ava...</a>

This would be awesome if you could combine the list with availability of &#60;xxx&#62;io.com -- to know when you could get both the shorter &#60;xxx&#62;.io and the traditional .com

Let the domain squatting begin. =P<p>Honestly though, at least its a $100 to register. At that price hopefully it will deter a lot of squatters from buying up all the domains. "For GBP 60 (approx US$ 100) for year one and GBP 30 (approx US$ 50) per year thereafter." (<a href="http://www.nic.io/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nic.io/</a>)

Shame, eie.io is gone<p>[Edit: I stole this idea from PowerPC, which has an eieio (Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O) instruction]

I'm too cheap to get it, but I think that threep.io is a perfect domain... ;)

Very cool, added you to <a href="http://domaingroovy.com" rel="nofollow">http://domaingroovy.com</a>

Two-letter ones are 'cooler' - we grabbed ep.io a few months back - but the NIC don't allow language or country codes as two letter domains, IIRC. Still, there's plenty left, as petercooper's comment says.

Seems like got.io would be kind of cool for someone specializing in high speed storage. Thanks for posting, I'm enjoying trying to come up with ideas based on the names alone.

Excellent!<p>Could you add a check for the name as a .com? For example, next to ace.io display "+.com" for available or "x .com" for unavailable.<p>[Edit: I noticed these are checked just once per day. Perhaps add a link to check the .com? As in, ace.io 2011-02-15 (<i>aceio.com?)</i> with aceio.com linked to <a href="http://iwantmyname.com/search?domain=aceio.com" rel="nofollow">http://iwantmyname.com/search?domain=aceio.com</a> ]

General question about anyones experience with domains that done end in .com<p>How hard coded is the .com extensions when it comes to the general public these days (your mom/uncle who just uses the internet to read email, if that much)? If you told someone your domain was foobar.io and you ask them to repeat the domain would they say foobario.com?

Cool utility. Surprised at how many three letter domains are still left.<p>Guess they'll be going away more quickly now...

Some feature requests: 1) add a realtime search function OR a way to navigate by letter<p>2) add an input that allows me to choose 3,4,5,6 letter domains.i know that's not the focus of the site, but still. would be cool.<p>Also, are you getting any kind of referral fee for sending over customers? hope so!

The last I looked (a couple of months ago) there were still a lot of 2 letter domains available on .io. Has that changed?<p>[Edit: Nevermind, I see that this is using 3 letter words, not just any 3 letter combination]

Ended up here: <a href="http://three.io/three_letter_words?page=3" rel="nofollow">http://three.io/three_letter_words?page=3</a>, and got an error. Might want to check your rails' production log :P

Hey, if you buy one of these domain names please let me know!

Perfect! I'm tired of explaining my goofy email address to people. Thank you for the solution!

What registrars sell .IO domains?

Saw ass.io and giggled. Hehehe.

Isn't the .io TLD too technical of a term for a non-tech site ?

I wanted sum.io, but I was too slow. Did anybody here get it?

Damn. eie.io has gone

cat /usr/share/dict/* | perl -ne's/io$/.io/ &#38;&#38; print lc if length == 6'

spy.io -- Thanks!

fix.io and try.io, Thanks