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Author here: the post is based on my direct experience with .io. It is not very clear to me how Afilias is involved in the operational side of things, AFAIK the

Author here: the post is based on my direct experience with .io. It is not very clear to me how Afilias is involved in the operational side of things, AFAIK they might have just acquired the existing .io infrastructure and kept it as it is (and same goes for the way more reliable .org TLD)

rmetzler 9y ago
This is a blogpost by Planio about moving from .io to .com https://plan.io/blog/post/166816338743/moving-from-planio-to-planiocom https://plan.io/blog/post/166816338743/moving-from-planio-to...
- bringtheaction 9y ago
  Going to planio.com redirects to plan.io, so whatever they had to say about moving from .io to .com can't be worth reading.
  - mottomotto 9y ago
    I was curious -- it's actually worth reading. "We have therefore decided to match what we paid for .io domains in the past with donations to the Chagos Conservation Trust and the UK Chagos Support Association. We will continue to do so every year - as long as we will have our .io domain (or the Chagossians start receiving their fair share of the domain business)." I don't fault them for keeping their .io considering the downsides of not doing so.
- tbarbugli 9y ago
  > Using .io is unfair to the Chagossian People > The reason closest to our hearts is the geopolitical background of .io domains which we only learned about recently. Later in the article: > Of course, we will make sure to redirect all traffic from *.plan.io appropriately so no existing links will break in the future. Which to me sounds like they will keep paying for the .io domain for the foreseeable future.
  - iamthirsty 9y ago
    "I don't like conflict diamonds, but since I have a bunch I might as well keep them — I just won't wear them." That's how it comes off to me.
    - an_account 9y ago
      If you already have a conflict diamond you already funded the mining effort. Keeping or throwing it away has no effect.
ca98am79 9y ago
The .io registry transitioned management of the registry operations to Afilias in June of this year. They did not keep the existing infrastructure - it was migrated to Afilias systems.
- tbarbugli 9y ago
  That's interesting. Can you share the source of that information? I was trying to understand that but somehow I did not manage to find anything online.
  - ca98am79 9y ago
    I own a .io registrar and I had to make changes to migrate to the new system
  - AndyMcConachie 9y ago
    dig io. SOA dig afilias-nst.info MX

rmetzler 9y ago

This is a blogpost by Planio about moving from .io to .com https://plan.io/blog/post/166816338743/moving-from-planio-to-planiocom https://plan.io/blog/post/166816338743/moving-from-planio-to...

bringtheaction 9y ago
Going to planio.com redirects to plan.io, so whatever they had to say about moving from .io to .com can't be worth reading.
- mottomotto 9y ago
  I was curious -- it's actually worth reading. "We have therefore decided to match what we paid for .io domains in the past with donations to the Chagos Conservation Trust and the UK Chagos Support Association. We will continue to do so every year - as long as we will have our .io domain (or the Chagossians start receiving their fair share of the domain business)." I don't fault them for keeping their .io considering the downsides of not doing so.
tbarbugli 9y ago
> Using .io is unfair to the Chagossian People > The reason closest to our hearts is the geopolitical background of .io domains which we only learned about recently. Later in the article: > Of course, we will make sure to redirect all traffic from *.plan.io appropriately so no existing links will break in the future. Which to me sounds like they will keep paying for the .io domain for the foreseeable future.
- iamthirsty 9y ago
  "I don't like conflict diamonds, but since I have a bunch I might as well keep them — I just won't wear them." That's how it comes off to me.
  - an_account 9y ago
    If you already have a conflict diamond you already funded the mining effort. Keeping or throwing it away has no effect.

ca98am79 9y ago

The .io registry transitioned management of the registry operations to Afilias in June of this year. They did not keep the existing infrastructure - it was migrated to Afilias systems.

tbarbugli 9y ago
That's interesting. Can you share the source of that information? I was trying to understand that but somehow I did not manage to find anything online.
- ca98am79 9y ago
  I own a .io registrar and I had to make changes to migrate to the new system
- AndyMcConachie 9y ago
  dig io. SOA dig afilias-nst.info MX