You know how I love weird treaty consequences? The IANA bases TLDs off ISO3166 country codes. If a code stops existing, IN THEORY they follow suit and kill the TLD. Officially this was 'British Indian Ocean Territory'. That's the .io domain everyone loves so much. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In a historic move, the UK gives up sovereignty of a strategic group of islands in the Indian Ocean.
Its weird how I found out about this island through a geography of british territories video a few days ago and now its headline news being handed over. I was totally unaware of its existence before last week.
I can stop telling people to not use .io because of colonialism now. I wish I was shocked at the number of people who failed to do due diligence about the TLD choice. (Or didn't care when they did.)
I think since they now allow generic non-country domains the best path would be to consider it 'generic' by having someone continue running it. We're well beyond domains being tied up to countries.
Aren’t the country codes for the Soviet Union and East Germany still kicking around?
Simple solution: Mauritius gives the Chagos some sort of internal autonomy, a bit like e.g. Åland, and they keep .io
And IO is currently "independantly" managed by a very shady contractor.
I had reassure myself that Diego Garcia was safe 😉
I wonder, they could perhaps designate it as one of the reserved ones, like ZZ, that no single country has any say over.
ooh look. Britain withdrew from the Chagos Islands just before #ClimateChange raised the sea level and washed them away
Someone will probably just pay to create a new .io TLD and they'll keep all the existing domain names.