: Reliable place to buy .io domains I'm looking around trying to find a good place to buy .io domains. Suddenly, I think I'm surrounded by scammers, since .io domain providers websites, are really

@Kaufman445

eNom used to support both purchase of .IO and ability to transfer .IO into eNom.

Then eNom stopped services for both, but existing registrations were kept.

Now they support registering .IO but you cannot transfer .IO into eNom at this time.

Multiple conversations with different levels of "support" at eNom indicate they will not likely support transfer ever.

I would consider eNom not reliable for .IO domains,

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@Turnbaugh106

You might also try one of their reseller registrars. In some cases resellers sell domains cheaper than the root authority, so it is worth checking out.

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@Shanna517

Nic.io seems to be the official registry and primary registrar for registering .io domains, so if you don't want to register through them, you're SOL. There are other registrars that also sell .io domains, but they're still just going through nic.io.

I'm sorry if you have bad feelings about nic.io, but that's just the nature of the domain name industry. When you have a regulatory agency like ICANN/Network Solutions, the industry naturally becomes dominated by sleazy companies. You can thank cronyism for that.

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