Nooo, what will become of my beloved fedia.io?
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2024
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RIP my @tuta.io email address lmao
while funny, it would cause me so many headaches either directly or indirectly that is completely cancels out
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Yes, there is laws, IANA says that ideally in 3-5 years all the .io will be gone, like the .yu ones, they do not exist anymore.
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No.
Why would Mauritius turn down a source of revenue?
Because .io is the top level country code domain for the British Indian Ocean Territory, and once a country ceases to exist, the top level domain is supposed to be phased out according to the IANA rules and eventually discontinued by the ICANN.
There are no .yu, .dd, .cs, or .tp domains left. The only exception I know is .su (soviet union).
There's plenty of non country domains too. Just make it into some acronym or have it mean I/O or whatever.
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"They have to get rid of it unless they decide not to."
I assume it's just gonna be inherited by Mauritius.
Still, too much money on .io to be shutdown.
Maybe. But it's up to ICANN and their rules, money might not be relevant to them, and with .io, there literally isn't a single person or company that uses it "correctly" as country TLDs are primarily intended to be used by entities connected to that country, and the territory has no permanent residents, unlike with .su.
On the flip side, that might work for the case too as well - maybe ICANN decides to make it a generic TLD, like .com or .org instead as it's not really directly connected to a country?
We shall see.
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.io is just too big to fail.
Well, they should have chosen a gTld
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