Comment on Itch drama is getting real

• moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  for once I hope that you do get greedy Image

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• nixcamic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • steventhedev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nope. They already have .mu

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    • nixcamic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • steventhedev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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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• Hoimo@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      …wikipedia.org/…/International_Organization_for_S…

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