For very good reasons, the .io TLD is going away.
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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
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@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.
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Emelia 👸🏻replied to yes last edited by [email protected]
@blogdiva @mttaggart @mwl I would be perfectly fine with .io continuing to exist and the profits going to the Chagossians — my point is really, this ccTLD has existed for a long time, and simply deleting it would cause so much link rot it'd be like breaking the web.
That isn't a colonialist perspective.. tbh, I don't think ccTLD's are a great idea.
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yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦replied to Emelia 👸🏻 last edited by
again, so?
they did that by using stolen land by genocide as an excuse.
i really do not give a fuck about white people's problems when they go about their lives as if they only mattered, genocides be damned.
technology IS political.
your feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit.
check yourself. don't be a white feminist.
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@blogdiva @mttaggart @mwl right but no one is really using .io to say “This is representing colonized land” they're using it because it looks like a computer reference.
Just like folks didn't realise .af was Afghanistan, when "af" is a common language now for "as fuck" e.g., queer.af didn't mean “queer Afghanistan” it meant, afaik, “queer as fuck”
And that's where even having ccTLDs gets messy af.
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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.
