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Reminder not to use goofy TLDs, being cute is not worth it when compared to security. There's no guarantees that the process for taking down a malicious domain will be as smooth as a .com.

I'd rather deal with US verisign rather than the British Indian Ocean territory or colombia or anguila



The .io TLD is administered by Afilias which is an American corporation.


Afilias was sold to Ethos Capital and the whole domain is a mess:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io


Confirmed:

>$dig io >$dig a0.nic.io >$whois 65.22.160.17

OrgName: Afilias, Inc. OrgId: AFILI-2 Address: 10500 NE 8th Street City: Bellevue StateProv: WA PostalCode: 98004 Country: US




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