Comment on The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
flamingos@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I doubt they’ll kill the domain outright, there’s too many long established websites using it and too much money behind those domains. It helps that the Chagos Island transfer is a lot less messy than the breakup of Yugoslavia (hopefully at least as it hasn’t actually happened yet).
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Sounds like they just won’t be renewed when they expire.
flamingos@feddit.uk 2 months ago
That’s what the author says IANA will do based on the precedent of .yu, but IANA hasn’t actually said what they’ll do yet.