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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Hoimo@ani.social 10 months agoCouldn’t they just move .io to a different category? Or are TLDs never reused once they lose their original designation?
int_not_found@feddit.org 10 months ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re not just country codes, but match a list of two character country codes defined by the UN
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Country codes are defined by the ISO, which is not UN run.
sawdustprophet@midwest.social 10 months ago
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.
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 10 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.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 months ago
.su isn’t an exception. The rule was created so the .su situation doesn’t happen again.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 10 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.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 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