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Will the .io domain cease to exist? | Tuta (tuta.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Nooo, what will become of my beloved fedia.io?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

RIP my @tuta.io email address lmao

[–] [email protected] 146 points 7 months ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (3 children)

while funny, it would cause me so many headaches either directly or indirectly that is completely cancels out

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No.

Why would Mauritius turn down a source of revenue?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

"They have to get rid of it unless they decide not to."

I assume it's just gonna be inherited by Mauritius.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Still, too much money on .io to be shutdown.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

.io is just too big to fail.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, they should have chosen a gTld

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Well they better make another damn exception.

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