GANDI are a good registrar but don't forget you need to add French taxes to that $39, plus any conversion rates and cross-border fees charged by your bank to pa

GANDI are a good registrar but don't forget you need to add French taxes to that $39, plus any conversion rates and cross-border fees charged by your bank to pay Crédit Mutuel, their bank. And you need to do that each year for a .io as you can't register that TLD for a multi-year period. As for GANDI's service: DNS and DNSSEC is good,their free mail service is a reliable back-up for me and they are prompt at answering questions for which they have an answer, though I've found they tend not to answer when they don't know... And I'd never think of them as cheap!