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    I assumed it was a shitpost, instead it is a real tweet. What a time to be alive.

    Jokes aside the only real reason I can fathom for the collectibles company to call their mother is because they had used it as the contact number in the registry. I would be surprised if this was some kind of intimidation tactic instead of just miscommunication - in the sense they probably just wanted to legally intimidate the itch’s owner not their immediate family. They are not 2K /s.

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    What will happen to itch.io when the British get rid of their overseas Indian Ocean territory? Can they keep the .io Top Level Domain?

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      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?

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          Couldn’t they just move .io to a different category?

          Specifically the issue is that two letter TLDs are reserved exclusively for countries/governments. So far only one exception has been made to this rule, .su for the Soviet Union. So another exemption is certainly possible.

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            As I understand it, the .su was not really an intentional exception as much as it happened before the strict rules were written down.

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            It is weird to imagine a world in which glasnost kept the union together and we have active .su domains around. I imagine they’d be less suspicious than .ru in our timeline but not a lot less

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          2 Letter TLDs are always country codes (and ccTLDs are always 2 Letters long). So moving them to another category is technically possible, but unprecedented and improbable.

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          They’re not just country codes, but match a list of two character country codes defined by the UN

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      Well Russia still kept .su after the USSR dissolved, so why not? It’s a convenient source of income.

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    Can I just point out this was standard practice for debt collectors like 15 years ago? Seriously they’d try to call your job, your family, neighbors and if they could, even friends to harass you to collect on the debt they bought rights to collect.