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People keep having to learn this the hard way, before committing to a TLD take stock of who actually operates it. You don't want to be the guy who bought an .af

People keep having to learn this the hard way, before committing to a TLD take stock of who actually operates it. You don't want to be the guy who bought an .af domain because it sounds like "as fuck" and only find out later that the Taliban gets to decide whether you can keep using it.

riffic 2y ago
the thing is if you point this out people just treat you like a debbie downer
mnau 2y ago
What's your point? .io is operated by a Internet Computer Bureau, that is owned by Identity Digital. Identity Digital manages (sponsors/owns) ~30% of TLDs. > Identity Digital / Donuts is either the ICANN-approved sponsor organization or owns controlling interest in the ICANN-approved sponsor organization for 264 top-level domains,[12] approximately 30% of all generally-available TLDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Digital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Digital
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- jsheard 2y ago
  My point is that .io represented a state which officially has zero permanent residents, which probably shouldn't have inspired confidence in its continued existence. Yes the paperwork was outsourced to Donuts in this case, but the principle of doing your due diligence on a TLD still applies.
  - mnau 2y ago
    Moot point. I was born in Czechoslovakia (.cs). It had whooping few thousands registered names (the biggest of decommissioned TLDs). It was later discontinued and we have .cz and .sk instead. .cs was reborn for Serbia and Montenegro and decommissioned again. Here is the moral: any domain can go away. We had millions of permanent residents and yet it went away.
  - echelon 2y ago
    Easy fix: the ccTLD is now a gTLD.
    - apitman 2y ago
      I'm pretty sure all 2-character TLDs are reserved for country codes.
jchw 2y ago
That actually isn't really the point here, the point here is that ccTLDs are reserved (mostly) for ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes and one of them is about to cease to exist. Not to say .io hasn't been a mess, but it's kind of irrelevant.

riffic 2y ago

the thing is if you point this out people just treat you like a debbie downer

mnau 2y ago

What's your point? .io is operated by a Internet Computer Bureau, that is owned by Identity Digital. Identity Digital manages (sponsors/owns) ~30% of TLDs. > Identity Digital / Donuts is either the ICANN-approved sponsor organization or owns controlling interest in the ICANN-approved sponsor organization for 264 top-level domains,[12] approximately 30% of all generally-available TLDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Digital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Digital

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jsheard 2y ago
My point is that .io represented a state which officially has zero permanent residents, which probably shouldn't have inspired confidence in its continued existence. Yes the paperwork was outsourced to Donuts in this case, but the principle of doing your due diligence on a TLD still applies.
- mnau 2y ago
  Moot point. I was born in Czechoslovakia (.cs). It had whooping few thousands registered names (the biggest of decommissioned TLDs). It was later discontinued and we have .cz and .sk instead. .cs was reborn for Serbia and Montenegro and decommissioned again. Here is the moral: any domain can go away. We had millions of permanent residents and yet it went away.
- echelon 2y ago
  Easy fix: the ccTLD is now a gTLD.
  - apitman 2y ago
    I'm pretty sure all 2-character TLDs are reserved for country codes.

jchw 2y ago

That actually isn't really the point here, the point here is that ccTLDs are reserved (mostly) for ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes and one of them is about to cease to exist. Not to say .io hasn't been a mess, but it's kind of irrelevant.