• steventhedev@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Once the treaty is signed, the .io cctld will phase out over 5 years.

    Unless ICANN get greedy and grant an exemption.

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      Could Mauritius choose to keep .io? The income it would bring in would probably be bigger than their GDP.

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            ccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it’s deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO

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              But why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.

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                Half grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent.

                ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.

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      Couldn’t they just move .io to a different category? Or are TLDs never reused once they lose their original designation?