For very good reasons, the .io TLD is going away.
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@blogdiva @mttaggart @mwl the .io TLD does not have to remain a ccTLD, it doesn't have to mean "indian ocean" or have any relationship to any country — though I do agree that in the interests of reparations, revenue from that TLD should go to the Chagossians.
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@thisismissem @blogdiva @mttaggart @mwl we very much knew that AF was Afghanistan. Yes, we were using it for the word play, but we were not ignorant
That the money was going to the Islamic Republic and not the Taliban was *part of the point*; the Islamic Republic may not have had the ideal track record on such things but they were a heck of a lot better than the alternative in the region. -
@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
