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[–] 104 points 2 years ago (19 children)

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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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (17 children)

    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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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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    Yeah but they UK has like 5 other domains besides .io

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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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