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What happens if the sponsor or administrator of one of these gTLDs disappears? A lot of them seem marginal and I wouldn’t be too surprised if some were not arou
by jl6 4y ago
What happens if the sponsor or administrator of one of these gTLDs disappears? A lot of them seem marginal and I wouldn’t be too surprised if some were not around in 10 years.
- foepys 4y agoThis isn't unprecedented, plenty of vanity TLDs were retired: https://dzdb.caida.org/tlds/graveyard https://dzdb.caida.org/tlds/graveyard
- jagger27 4y agoNone of these seem particularly tragic. It looks like they’re all brands that decided they didn’t want to renew their rights to the TLD. No biggie.
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoI wish that table were sortable. Why HTML tables haven't been sortable by clicking their headers since 1.0 of the standard is beyond me.
- CydeWeys 4y agoThey won't disappear. There is a process by which ICANN will assign another registry operator to continue hosting them: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ebero-2013-04-02-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/ebero-2013-04-02-en (Note that all registries are continuously escrowing data on all domains on their TLDs on a daily basis for precisely this reason.)