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That's because it's a ccTLD, not because it's not dot-com though. The powers that be could very well decide to just promote it to be a gTLD if they wanted to no
by mrsilencedogood 2y ago
That's because it's a ccTLD, not because it's not dot-com though. The powers that be could very well decide to just promote it to be a gTLD if they wanted to not destroy stuff for no reason. Actual gTLDs aren't susceptible to the same kinds of issues.
- teddyh 2y ago> The powers that be could very well decide to just promote it to be a gTLD No, they can’t do that. Every two-letter TLD is defined to be a ccTLD, and nothing else.
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- mrsilencedogood 2y agoIf they did that anyway, who would stop them? This seems like a great time to make an exception.
- miningape 2y agoLiterally, these are arbitrary strings following arbitrary rules. It's time to ditch ICANN and develop a parallel DNS that makes sense for today not the 90s.
- Sander_Marechal 2y agoYes they can. They did it before after the Soviet Union broke up and they kept the .su TLD. It's still active. I'd argue that keeping around .io is more important than keeping .su around, seeing how many people and businesses use .io domains.