> this claim would EXTINGUISH the british indian ocean territory, _and_ the
> iso-3166 two-letter country code, _and_ potentially the .io domain
Is there any precedence for this?
> .io domains are associated with:
This seems so tribalistic.
Is there any precedence for this?
> .io domains are associated with:
This seems so tribalistic.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain#...
The following list of ccTLDs have been deleted after the associated country was withdrawn from ISO-3166-1: .cs (Czechoslovakia), .zr (Zaire), .tp (East Timor).
It has happened before and could happen again. There are also some, like .su (soviet union), being actively phased out which will probably be deleted in only a matter of time.
If io is withdrawn from ISO-3166-1, we may see the ccTLD be deleted as soon as 2150 I think.
i'm not sure - but there's definitely risk, and a lot of potential for it to happen here:
- https://domainincite.com/23957-un-ruling-may-put-io-domains-...
- https://www.nominet.uk/the-shifting-world-of-country-codes/
- https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/27/io_domains_uk_un/?pag...
In 1989, AARNet was launched as a replacement for ACSnet, connecting Australia's universities using TCP/IP, and to the global Internet. ACSnet was grandfathered into AARNet, by moving *.oz to *.oz.au. And the oz.au domain still exists, although it has long been closed to new registrants – the main oz.au site I know of which still exists is ftp://munnari.oz.au – an anonymous FTP server (I believe run by the University of Melbourne), most of the contents of which hasn't been touched in years, you might say it is preserved for posterity. Also one individual who somehow has an .oz.au for his personal website http://danny.oz.au/ (I think his background in university IT likely explains how he got it)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHSnet see also https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/ACSnet/
Although it seems their main address is actually http://www.cloudbus.org/