Theoretically .io should cease to exist as well but apparently TLDs can be "too big to fail"[0], too. But officially, there's a 5 years-long grace period after which .io is deemed to be sunshined[1].
> In essence, a five-year time window will commence during which time usage of the domain will need to be phased out.
Related: "Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?"[2] (2024-10-03), 250p 210c
Why should they be "cleaned up" when there are TLDs like .blog, .hotel, .sucks, and other great ones (.great doesn't exist) that are allowed to be there?
.sucks really shouldn't exist, it's pretty explicitly set up as an extortion racket. They charge nearly $300 a year because they know that brands will pay a lot to prevent anyone else from getting brand.sucks.
> it's pretty explicitly set up as an extortion racket
Or rather for squatting. google.sucks is registered by Google LLC, microsoft.sucks by Microsoft Corporation, meta.sucks by Meta Platforms, Inc., and so on...
That's what they're saying. Corps are "forced" to buy their own domain with .sucks to prevent someone else from hosting something critical of the brands there. Whoever came up with .sucks gets to make money from people buying the domains just to prevent others from using them to actually host something.
Yup. IANA dind't have ccTLD retiring procedures yet, when Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. But would they want to, they could delist it at any point. IANA holds the registry for all TLDs and - that's extreme and unlikely - could delist .ru, .ir or .kp at any moment.
According to Verisign, there’s over 1.5M domains registered on the .io TLD.
According to this Wikipedia entry, there were 800 domains registered on the .an TLD the year it was phased out.
Who knows what ICANN will do, but my guess is there will be a lot more pressure to keep the .io domain going even though the British Indian Ocean Territory is being ceded to Mauritius (.mu) at some point.
IIRC they put some administrative protections in place after Russia declined to give up .su – this is why we don't have .yu, despite Serbia (I think) wanting to keep it. Perhaps those can be overruled, though.
I'd guess that it's actually a requirement. Domains registered under ccTLDs (country-code top level domains) are managed by regional bodies[0]. In case of .su, it's either RIPN or ROSNIIROS[1] which manages the registry and registrations.
But again - IANA is universally queried about given TLD and redirects the query to regional body. In case of .su:
> whois yandex.su
% IANA WHOIS server
% for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org
% This query returned 1 object
refer: whois.tcinet.ru
domain: SU
organisation: Russian Institute for Development of Public Networks
organisation: (ROSNIIROS)
(...)
# whois.tcinet.ru
% TCI Whois Service. Terms of use:
% https://tcinet.ru/documents/whois_ru_rf.pdf (in Russian)
% https://tcinet.ru/documents/whois_su.pdf (in Russian)
domain: YANDEX.SU
nserver: ns1.snparking.ru.
(...)
state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED
[0] USUALLY; .tk, .ga, .cf, .gq were managed by by infamous Freenom due to incapability of owners to do it themselves
Yeah… And which of the involved parties are so eager to send that kind of signal to Docker? What would it change?
Mauritius can make money from these registrations, like Anguilla makes a pretty penny from .ai today. They have no practical interest in seeing the .io TLD gone.
Mauritius isn't really the decider here and neither is ICAAN. There is an ISO committee that if they remove the name would kick the decision to Mauritius about how to make the transition.
Presumably. Cutesy ccTLD hacks have given me the ick from the start. My last job used .io for our primary Kubernetes cluster and I found it distasteful. Is a fun little reference worth tying your infrastructure to the vagaries of geopolitics?
> In essence, a five-year time window will commence during which time usage of the domain will need to be phased out.
Related: "Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?"[2] (2024-10-03), 250p 210c
[0] https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/10/io_domain_uk_mauritiu...
[1] https://domainnamewire.com/2024/10/09/io-domain-names-arent-...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526
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