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Five times ICANN deleted a ccTLD, and what it means for .io
- stonethrowaway 2y agoMy .com domain hoarding/scalping is paying off by the sheer virtue of other TLDs becoming unreliable over time. TANSTAAFL.
- tonetegeatinst 2y agoShould have hoarded .gov .mil and .edu The ROI for selling those would be insane.
- panja 2y agoThere is no way .io would share that same fate
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoRelated: The Disappearance of an Internet Domain https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778633
- coolspot 2y agoNotably, .su domain for Soviet Union is alive and well, comrades.
- NikkiA 2y agoAs is .hk which is perhaps a better example
- zoezoezoezoe 2y ago> ICANN’s policy on ccTLDs is pretty straightforward — your territory has to be on the ISO 3166 list and the ccTLD has to match the code ISO gives you. If your code drops off the list, you have five years, extensible to 10, to conduct an orderly transition before the TLD is retired. Yeah, no, on the ISO 3166 list the soviet union is notably absent, and that country has been gone for over 30 years and yet, you can still buy a .su domain to this day if you wanted. ICANN considers the usage of the domains and how potentially damaging it could be to remove a domain, I strongly strongly believe that .io is here to stay.