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> this claim would EXTINGUISH the british indian ocean territory, _and_ the > iso-3166 two-letter country code, _and_ potentially the .io domain Is there

by nomel 4y ago

> this claim would EXTINGUISH the british indian ocean territory, _and_ the > iso-3166 two-letter country code, _and_ potentially the .io domain Is there any precedence for this? > .io domains are associated with: This seems so tribalistic.

djbusby 4y ago
IIRC the Australians tried to be '.oz' but now that's gone.
- skissane 4y ago
  .oz wasn't actually Internet DNS. Australia developed its own domestic inter-university network (ACSnet), running a locally-developed protocol (MHSnet) which was conceptually similar to UUCP, but incompatible with it. [0] In some ways, ACSnet could be compared to BITNET, CSNET, Coloured Book-era JANET, etc. In 1989, AARNet was launched as a replacement for ACSnet, connecting Australia's universities using TCP/IP, and to the global Internet. ACSnet was grandfathered into AARNet, by moving *.oz to *.oz.au. And the oz.au domain still exists, although it has long been closed to new registrants – the main oz.au site I know of which still exists is ftp://munnari.oz.au – an anonymous FTP server (I believe run by the University of Melbourne), most of the contents of which hasn't been touched in years, you might say it is preserved for posterity. Also one individual who somehow has an .oz.au for his personal website http://danny.oz.au/ http://danny.oz.au/ (I think his background in university IT likely explains how he got it) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHSnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHSnet see also https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/ACSnet/ https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/ACSnet/
  - chrismorgan 4y ago
    I think the Computer Science department of the University of Melbourne still uses some *.cs.mu.oz.au, though cs.mu.oz.au. itself stopped having any A records some time in the past decade or so. But its name server mulga.cs.mu.oz.au. is certainly still alive.
    - skissane 4y ago
      Found this website, even updated last month: http://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/ http://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/ Although it seems their main address is actually http://www.cloudbus.org/ http://www.cloudbus.org/
j3s 4y ago
> Is there any precedence for this? i'm not sure - but there's definitely risk, and a lot of potential for it to happen here: - https://domainincite.com/23957-un-ruling-may-put-io-domains-at-risk https://domainincite.com/23957-un-ruling-may-put-io-domains-... - https://www.nominet.uk/the-shifting-world-of-country-codes/ https://www.nominet.uk/the-shifting-world-of-country-codes/ - https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/27/io_domains_uk_un/?page=2 https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/27/io_domains_uk_un/?pag...
emodendroket 4y ago
Given that nobody associates the TLD with the Indian Ocean I'd think they could hand it over to a new entity to manage
- j3s 4y ago
  tbh, i hope so!
TheDong 4y ago
> is there any precedent? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain#Historical_ccTLDs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain#... The following list of ccTLDs have been deleted after the associated country was withdrawn from ISO-3166-1: .cs (Czechoslovakia), .zr (Zaire), .tp (East Timor). It has happened before and could happen again. There are also some, like .su (soviet union), being actively phased out which will probably be deleted in only a matter of time. If io is withdrawn from ISO-3166-1, we may see the ccTLD be deleted as soon as 2150 I think.

by nomel 4y ago

djbusby 4y ago

IIRC the Australians tried to be '.oz' but now that's gone.

skissane 4y ago
.oz wasn't actually Internet DNS. Australia developed its own domestic inter-university network (ACSnet), running a locally-developed protocol (MHSnet) which was conceptually similar to UUCP, but incompatible with it. [0] In some ways, ACSnet could be compared to BITNET, CSNET, Coloured Book-era JANET, etc. In 1989, AARNet was launched as a replacement for ACSnet, connecting Australia's universities using TCP/IP, and to the global Internet. ACSnet was grandfathered into AARNet, by moving *.oz to *.oz.au. And the oz.au domain still exists, although it has long been closed to new registrants – the main oz.au site I know of which still exists is ftp://munnari.oz.au – an anonymous FTP server (I believe run by the University of Melbourne), most of the contents of which hasn't been touched in years, you might say it is preserved for posterity. Also one individual who somehow has an .oz.au for his personal website http://danny.oz.au/ http://danny.oz.au/ (I think his background in university IT likely explains how he got it) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHSnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHSnet see also https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/ACSnet/ https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/ACSnet/
- chrismorgan 4y ago
  I think the Computer Science department of the University of Melbourne still uses some *.cs.mu.oz.au, though cs.mu.oz.au. itself stopped having any A records some time in the past decade or so. But its name server mulga.cs.mu.oz.au. is certainly still alive.
  - skissane 4y ago
    Found this website, even updated last month: http://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/ http://gridbus.cs.mu.oz.au/ Although it seems their main address is actually http://www.cloudbus.org/ http://www.cloudbus.org/

j3s 4y ago

> Is there any precedence for this? i'm not sure - but there's definitely risk, and a lot of potential for it to happen here: - https://domainincite.com/23957-un-ruling-may-put-io-domains-at-risk https://domainincite.com/23957-un-ruling-may-put-io-domains-... - https://www.nominet.uk/the-shifting-world-of-country-codes/ https://www.nominet.uk/the-shifting-world-of-country-codes/ - https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/27/io_domains_uk_un/?page=2 https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/27/io_domains_uk_un/?pag...

emodendroket 4y ago

Given that nobody associates the TLD with the Indian Ocean I'd think they could hand it over to a new entity to manage

j3s 4y ago
tbh, i hope so!

TheDong 4y ago

> is there any precedent? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain#Historical_ccTLDs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain#... The following list of ccTLDs have been deleted after the associated country was withdrawn from ISO-3166-1: .cs (Czechoslovakia), .zr (Zaire), .tp (East Timor). It has happened before and could happen again. There are also some, like .su (soviet union), being actively phased out which will probably be deleted in only a matter of time. If io is withdrawn from ISO-3166-1, we may see the ccTLD be deleted as soon as 2150 I think.