Auction only launched 4 days ago, have not even started email outreach, among other marketing efforts to spread the word. Sign up and watch, you'll see :-)
"Bad gTLD" is not a fair characterization. Google treats .IO as a generic top-level domain, because of the actual use/adoption by the tech industry (I/O = input/output...or for this bitcoin use case, io could = "I owe").
See the range of bitcoin products and services operating on .io for years...
https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3Aio+bitcoinCloud.io recently sold for $42k (at Flippa, twice, actually). See a range of other 5-figure sales reported on .io here:
http://namebio.com/?s=QN5YTO5IzM)
And yes, I am the seller. PM me with any questions, happy to discuss payment options, etc. - thanks.