For very good reasons, the .io TLD is going away.
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@thisismissem @blogdiva @mttaggart @mwl it can't not be a ccTLD; or otherwise what do you propose be done when a different country picks IO as it's ISO 3166-1 Alpha 2 code?
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@erincandescent @blogdiva @mttaggart @mwl I'd be inclined to say retired ISO 3166-1 Alpha codes shouldn't be able to be reused, it just becomes deprecated/retired, and anything else would need to find a different 2 letter code.
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@thisismissem @blogdiva @mttaggart @mwl we’re currently at 50% utilisation. We’ve already exhausted a lot of the “good” ones (pray help you if your country’s name starts with an S); if they were permanently reserved we’d run out and run into issues.
Typically they become Transitionally Reserved for 50 years, though it can be shortened to 5 years with good reason
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@thisismissem @blogdiva @mttaggart @mwl If you want an identifier for a territory which will never change and never be reused, ISO 3166-1 has got you covered thogh: thats what the 3 digit numerics are for.
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@thisismissem in any case, all profits should go to the chagossians, including past ones.
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@yetzt I considered the "who gets the money from this" to be a “it goes without saying that the Chagossians should”, because that's the only right outcome.
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@feld @erincandescent @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl there are tlds for hongkong, macau, both israel and palestine, all the british territories and so on
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@b_rawr @feld @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl n.b. all of these are assigned country codes by the ISO 3166 MA; ICANN Just delegates the TLD
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@erincandescent @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl OK, but this territory wasn't the UK, so why shouldn't Mauritius be able to control the domain in the same way the UK did?
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@raucao @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl Mauritius position is that it's Mauritius, not a separate territory. Even if it is to be a separate territory within Mauritius, it's unlikely it would be called the (something) Indian Ocean Territory given that Mauritius is also in the Indian Ocean
