That means the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist, along with the .io domain and countless websites.
What will happen is that the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove the country code “IO.” IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) which creates and assigns top-level domains, uses this code to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once ‘IO’ is removed, IANA will start the process of retiring .io, which involves stopping new registrations and the expiration of existing ‘.io domains.‘
I don’t get this: shouldn’t Mauritius gain ownership of .io? Russia has .su, and it’s been over 30 years since the Soviets existed.
[edit] also, since there’s .whateveryouwant these days, why not just make .io a non-country TLD? That’s how it’s used anyway.
Its funny you mention .su because that’s the exact time IANA learned that it shouldn’t stick around.
https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain
TLDR: .su domains are some of the best places for illegal content on the clearnet to live. And we aren’t talking piracy. We’re talking child porn and snuff films. IANA doesn’t want that smoke again.
As to your second point, it very much could except that breaks the rules for TLDs. Then again companies could put enough money behind it to change the rules I’m sure.
I don’t get it either. I think that’s exactly what will happen in the end and that this is a story about nothing that the media has latched onto (I’ve seen this reported elsewhere). I guess they’ve got to try and find as much content as they can to try and detract from reporting on the genocide in Gaza.
While there’s certainly something to be said about a hesitancy to report actual news, this isn’t one of those times. .io will go away and .su is the reason why.
It’s an interesting take on it for sure, but I think .io will remain. While geopolitics can be a huge factor, there’s too many top level domains tied up in it. In the end, money talks and bullshit walks.
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