My “companies need to be punished for using ccTLDs for vanity domain names” shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered on the shirt
(retired TLDs are removed from the DNS root, so all associated second-level domains will break when this happens) 2) the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency will grant .io the same 'exceptionally reserved' status it granted .su (USSR), as if this is the world heritage site equivalent for ccTLDs [12/19]
1) IANA, annoyed by the cavalier use of ccTLDs in digital vanity plates, will enforce its policy that if a code is removed from the ISO 3166 standard (which is maintained by the UN), the registry has 5 years, extendable to 10, to manage an "orderly transition" before the TLD is retired [11/19]
Maybe. But, keep in mind they have deleted other ccTLDs in the past. Under their bylaws, they may not have any choice.
With the future of .io coming into question this week, with the news that the UK will return sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius, I thought it would be a good time to see ho...
The difficulty with that is currently they don't allow two-character gTLDs. That's to ensure they are clearly different from ccTLDs. So yes, they could, but it would create a different issue. So isn't without consequences.
I chose to avoid ccTLDs years ago because I speculated that something like this could happen. I'm glad I went with my gut instinct on that even though it meant I couldn't register some clever names. It's all .coms for me!
How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure
Tem que ir com muito cuidado nos ccTLDs todos. Porque além de depender de uma ou duas empresas, ainda depende de governo. O da Líbia caiu e uma galera ficou na dúvida do que ia rolar. Tem os gTLDs, tipo .app e .blue, esses você só depende de empresa mesmo
The IANA started making exceptions a very long time ago. Someone showed me the list of exceptions yesterday, there are currently four domains existing in violation of the "nobody gets 2-letter TLDs except valid ccTLDs" rule. One of them is .su, for the Soviet Union.
yeah lots of ccTLDs are notoriously unregulated. still odd that honest websites would choose them, especially colonial ones like .io, which are all always on thin ice because there's little reason to justify them
from what I've gathered, it's mainly vanity. google and most search engines treat generified ccTLDs as generic ones. and ccTLDs have shorter names (i.e. .ac as opposed to .academy). the problem is that they're still country coded regardless of how generically they're commercialised and treated