Safety of purchasing country-specific domains from registrars?

Posted by Marc Bollinger on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Marc Bollinger
Published on 2011-01-11T06:30:38Z Indexed on 2011/01/11 8:59 UTC
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None of the previous questions tackle some of the one-off (or further) countries' registries, beyond .co.uk, .it, et al. or else I'd have found an answer myself.

Is it safe to buy a domain from a foreign country TLD from a registrar?

http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/

I'm just looking for information for a vanity domain, so obviously I'm alright without an answer, but it's an unasked question (or at least, unanswered), and I'm not exactly in a hurry to give my credit card information over country lines, sight unseen.

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