3 ms·

Afilias manages the .io domain. Give them a call: +1 866.368.4636 https://afilias.info/contact-us/support https://afilias.info/contact-us/support

bryanlarsen 9y ago
It looks like they manage a lot of other domains, all of which should be avoided. Does anybody have a canonical list? It would be silly to switch away from .io to another of their domains!
- sp332 9y ago
  Not official, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afilias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afilias Registry operator: .info, .mobi .pro Service provider for registry operators of: .org, .ngo, .lgbt, .asia, .aero, Provider of domain name registry services for countries: .MN (Mongolia), .AG (Antigua and Barbuda), .BM (Bermuda), .BZ (Belize), .GI (Gibraltar), .IN (India), .ME (Montenegro), .SC (the Seychelles), and .VC (St. Vincent and the Grenadines). Provided ancillary support to: .SG (Singapore) and .HN (Honduras).
- mnordhoff 9y ago
  You can usually tell from the NS and SOA records. For example, "dig io ns", "dig io soa", "dig org ns", "dig org soa". Afilias is the only registry operator i know of that uses nameservers with names like "a0.example.com", and the SOA email address has their name. TLDs can, and occasionally do, switch from one registry operator to another, though. (After all, that's what .io did.)
bryanlarsen 9y ago
Afilias also manages the .org domain? Does this mean that we should consider it potentially unreliable too?
sp332 9y ago
Isn't Internet Computer Bureau the administrator? https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/io.html https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/io.html
- ebcase 9y ago
  Nope, ICB sold their .io registry interest to Afilias a few months ago. https://www.namepros.com/threads/io-is-transitioning-to-affilias-is-this-good-or-bad.1019079/ https://www.namepros.com/threads/io-is-transitioning-to-affi...
  - CydeWeys 9y ago
    Perhaps it's still running on the old platform?

bryanlarsen 9y ago

It looks like they manage a lot of other domains, all of which should be avoided. Does anybody have a canonical list? It would be silly to switch away from .io to another of their domains!

sp332 9y ago
Not official, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afilias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afilias Registry operator: .info, .mobi .pro Service provider for registry operators of: .org, .ngo, .lgbt, .asia, .aero, Provider of domain name registry services for countries: .MN (Mongolia), .AG (Antigua and Barbuda), .BM (Bermuda), .BZ (Belize), .GI (Gibraltar), .IN (India), .ME (Montenegro), .SC (the Seychelles), and .VC (St. Vincent and the Grenadines). Provided ancillary support to: .SG (Singapore) and .HN (Honduras).
mnordhoff 9y ago
You can usually tell from the NS and SOA records. For example, "dig io ns", "dig io soa", "dig org ns", "dig org soa". Afilias is the only registry operator i know of that uses nameservers with names like "a0.example.com", and the SOA email address has their name. TLDs can, and occasionally do, switch from one registry operator to another, though. (After all, that's what .io did.)

bryanlarsen 9y ago

Afilias also manages the .org domain? Does this mean that we should consider it potentially unreliable too?

sp332 9y ago

Isn't Internet Computer Bureau the administrator? https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/io.html https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/io.html

ebcase 9y ago
Nope, ICB sold their .io registry interest to Afilias a few months ago. https://www.namepros.com/threads/io-is-transitioning-to-affilias-is-this-good-or-bad.1019079/ https://www.namepros.com/threads/io-is-transitioning-to-affi...
- CydeWeys 9y ago
  Perhaps it's still running on the old platform?