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The Wikipedia entry on the .io TLD is interesting [1]. The .io TLD is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territories, and there's currently an ongoing intern
by slowmovintarget 3y ago
The Wikipedia entry on the .io TLD is interesting [1].
The .io TLD is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territories, and there's currently an ongoing international legal dispute over whether the territories even exist, or they just belong to Mauritius. If the U.N. "wins" the .io domain would be slated for removal (technically).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
- bshipp 3y agoI can't imagine .io would ever be removed. if anything, it'll be categorized like .org or .com if it loses its geographic justification.
- valianteffort 3y agoBut aren't two letter TLD's reserved for country codes?
- gary_0 3y agoThere will definitely be complaints if we colonize Jupiter's moons but the .io TLD has been commandeered by open source projects.
- signal11 3y agoThere are um, significant challenges to colonising Io. It’s 400 active volcanoes to start with, in a body the size of Earth’s moon. If we could tap its flux tube for energy though—- now that’d be cool.
- squarefoot 3y ago> There are um, significant challenges to colonising Io. What about Europa (.eu)?
- woleium 3y agoOk grampa, let's use DNS. Should we all type code out by hand as well?
- rewmie 3y ago> What about Europa (.eu)? .eu is already the ccTLD if the European Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eu
- squarefoot 3y agoYes, I was referring to the grandparent's comment about Jupiter moons and .io that can't be used. Odd wording from my side.
- riffic 3y agonot really how it works but your imagination is healthy.
- niij 3y agoThere's precedent. The .su (Soviet Union) ccTLD is still around. It takes registrations at the second level and is open to registrations from anyone regardless of nationality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su
- nkko 3y agoThere are some examples https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.yu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.yu
- xcdzvyn 3y agoBut we got .rs and .me in exchange. The world just wants to maximize domain hacks :)
- qingcharles 3y agoAnd there is a lot of precedent for removing ccTLDs for countries that no longer exist, regardless of what is using them, e.g. East Germany, USSR etc.
- smsm42 3y ago.su still alive. Given it's controlled by Russia and widely used for scams I wouldn't recommend going to any site registered in that domain necessarily, but it has not been removed and likely won't be anytime soon.
- qingcharles 3y agoThank you, I stand corrected :)
- smsm42 3y agoGiven that top-level domain does not have to be geographical, they can easily just keep it, just somebody else would be making money from it.