1. You are not getting .io names at a discount from nic.io? No insider deals/information?
2. The Only advantage you have at acquiring an expired domain names at nic.io is your propriatiatry program. A program that is just faster at buying these expiring domains--just faster than your competition?
3. You only know when a .io domain name is due to expire is by looking at the same WHOSIS info we look at?
4. I ask these questions because so many of these domain buying services are just to magical. We tend assume the worst.