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In this case, the registrar obviously screwed up. Still, if the domain had been renewed for an additional year already, the domain would not have been expired.

As sad as it may seem, you need to take other people's incompetence into account when you're dealing with business-critical things like domain names.

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The domain was paid, the registrar took the money, but .io didn't renew it, because they need the renewal notice at least 3 days prior to expiry.

It was a registrar screw up, but my main take away is: avoid .io like plague.

> avoid .io like plague

How else am I supposed to automatically add a layer of cool to my startup

Name it something that ends in *-fy. That's still cool, right?

Make the startup name something ending in .de and use a .de domain. The "TLD is part of the name" is also cool, and .de is reliable. e.g.: starma.de

For English words that would work I guess. Here in EU a .de would also obviously point to something German which wouldn't be the intention.

It also wouldn’t be bad either – .de is even here in the EU considered a more trustworthy domain.

Personally I have my main stuff all on .de, my short domains on .eu, and then for certain projects purpose-specific domains on .info

Why even support EU users though with all the GDPR overhead? Unless you are a multinational who doesnt care about GDPR overheads, best not to target the EU market isnt it?

I'm in Brussels, right in the belly of the beast!

.de actually has some tight requirements on it e.g. you need to include an "Impressum" on any hosted sites that states the name and address of a person responsible for the website

Every site targeting the German market has to do that, not just .de

And if you're a company you already have to publish a contact for legal matters anyway.

The only situation where an imprint doesn't already exist are scammers and personal sites, and personal sites don't need an imprint (if you make money with ads, it's not personal).

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