The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
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How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure
  • notabot@lemm.ee
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    24 days ago

    I very much doubt that the .io TLD will vanish, too many big companies use it. Seen as non-country TLDs are allowed, I suspect that as soon as the country code goes away an existing registrar will buy it and .io domains will carry on.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
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      24 days ago

      The article is literally about how there is precedent for eliminating a country’s TLD when that country no longer exists, in the .su and .yu domains (for USSR and Yugoslavia respectively).

      It won’t happen overnight, but it’ll happen.