Comment on Itch drama is getting real

Gork@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• steventhedev@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    for once I hope that you do get greedy Image

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  • nixcamic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes. That’s not what the regulation says, but exceptions are made all the time.

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    • steventhedev@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nope. They already have .mu

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      • nixcamic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Hoimo@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • sawdustprophet@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Meh. There’s also .UK, which is not the country code for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland… that’s GB.

        We also have .EU, so this stuff is all pretty flexible in some sense.

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      • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        .su isn’t an exception. The rule was created so the .su situation doesn’t happen again.

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      • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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    • int_not_found@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Country codes are defined by the ISO, which is not UN run.

        …wikipedia.org/…/International_Organization_for_S…

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• xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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