Oh, the TLD that went down for many hours (more than a day IIRC?) that one time a couple years ago — forcing all the companies like the one I work at, who host their own stuff on .io and use statuspage.io, to really scramble... fun times!

This sounds from the article like a great thing — or I mean, at least a partial righting of a historical injustice — but I am also interested to know: does it have any implications for the .io TLD?

It's also part of the dispute. https://www.jlevy.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/OECD-July-28...