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Random curiosity: if they just go dark indefinitely, is there some authority that can assume authority over those TLDs? IANA or something?
by Waterluvian 4y ago
Random curiosity: if they just go dark indefinitely, is there some authority that can assume authority over those TLDs? IANA or something?
- Macha 4y agoSince they're ccTLDs, the governments of those countries can designate new operators. The root nameservers (operated by a variety of operators, under ICANN's supervision) would have to update their top level record but they are generally hands off for ccTLDs (because if they were not, a country could just mandate its ISPs use a different set of root servers)
- CydeWeys 4y agoICANN has EBERO with a standardized escrow format to deal with this exact issue for gTLDs but ccTLDs are pretty much a wild west. I wouldn't use these.