For very good reasons, the .io TLD is going away.
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For very good reasons, the
.ioTLD is going away.Once this treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist. Various international bodies will update their records. In particular, the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove country code “IO” from its specification. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which creates and delegates top-level domains, uses this specification to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once IO is removed, the IANA will refuse to allow any new registrations with a .io domain. It will also automatically begin the process of retiring existing ones. (There is no official count of the number of extant .io domains.)
(H/t @mwl )
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Emelia 👸🏻replied to Taggart :donor: last edited by [email protected]
@mttaggart @mwl tbh, I think .io should continue to exist, but just like .dev or .tech, just changing who administrates it, otherwise they'll cause so much link rot and break the web.
Edit, because people are missing what I'm saying: I'm saying we should find a solution that doesn't break the web, and also pays reparations (that should go without saying)
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@thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl I doubt ICANN will allow it's continued existence. They really do not want to wade into geopolitics
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Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:replied to Erin 💽✨ last edited by
@erincandescent @thisismissem @mttaggart
I believe you're correct.
The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia schooled them hard.
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@erincandescent @thisismissem @mwl On the other hand, if there's a way for Mauritius to be compensated for maintenance, there's a sense of justice about it.
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@mttaggart @thisismissem @mwl why should Mauritius get the money? If it should go to anyone, it's the Chagosians
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Erin 💽✨replied to Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire: last edited by@mwl @thisismissem @mttaggart yeah in particular if they don't abolish it then it's a double standard w.r.t. past examples like .yu
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[email protected]replied to Taggart :donor: last edited by
@[email protected] @[email protected] Why did .su stay online but .io can't?
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@erincandescent @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl This is a good time to remind people that .ai is Anguilla, which is also a British Overseas Territory.
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@eichin @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl to be fair Anguilla is the only state I know of which has fought a war of independence to become a British colony
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@erincandescent @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl On the other hand, if they *do* abolish .io it would be a double standard w.r.t. .su
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@erincandescent @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl > they really do not want to wade into geopolitics
Ok I'll bite, why would they have .tw for Taiwan then? -
@feld @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl because it's in ISO 3166 (where it's considered a provience of China)
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@muvlon @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl ISO has exceptionally reserved SU. I imagine it will be decommissioned if they ever withdraw that
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@thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl also my lastname works perfectly with it because it ends with "io", I'd be sad to lose that domain. I expect many others would too, even disregarding crypto bro companies
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@erincandescent @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl Since nobody owns the Indian Ocean per se, and pretty much everyone using the domain isn't using it to represent anything connected to the Indian Ocean or the specific territory that's changing hands, why can it not turn into what it already unofficially is?
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@raucao @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl All 2-letter TLDs are to be allocated per the ISO 3166 list of country codes.
If IANA were to diverge from this, it would risk a collision in the future should IO be assigned to a country. It would generally also be bad form for a member of the ISO 3166 Maintainance Agency to diverge from the standard they maintain.
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@erincandescent @thisismissem @mttaggart @mwl @raucao The
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to Emelia 👸🏻 last edited by
"I think .io should continue to exist"
catch yourself perpetuating the iconic duo of white women and settler colonialist bullshit.
do not fall for the settler colonialist bullshit.
