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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by slowmovintarget on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:18PM (#36818246)
The Wikipedia entry on the .io TLD is interesting [1].

The .io TLD is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territories, and there's currently an ongoing international legal dispute over whether the territories even exist, or they just belong to Mauritius. If the U.N. "wins" the .io domain would be slated for removal (technically).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by bshipp on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:35PM (#36818496)
I can't imagine .io would ever be removed. if anything, it'll be categorized like .org or .com if it loses its geographic justification.
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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by valianteffort on Friday July 21, 2023 @04:08PM (#36818986)
But aren't two letter TLD's reserved for country codes?
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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by gary_0 on Friday July 21, 2023 @06:19PM (#36820715)
There will definitely be complaints if we colonize Jupiter's moons but the .io TLD has been commandeered by open source projects.
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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by signal11 on Saturday July 22, 2023 @09:23AM (#36826014)
There are um, significant challenges to colonising Io.

It’s 400 active volcanoes to start with, in a body the size of Earth’s moon.

If we could tap its flux tube for energy though—- now that’d be cool.

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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by squarefoot on Saturday July 22, 2023 @12:19PM (#36827491)
> There are um, significant challenges to colonising Io.

What about Europa (.eu)?

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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by rewmie on Saturday July 22, 2023 @02:01PM (#36828280)
> What about Europa (.eu)?

.eu is already the ccTLD if the European Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eu

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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by squarefoot on Saturday July 22, 2023 @04:51PM (#36829791)
Yes, I was referring to the grandparent's comment about Jupiter moons and .io that can't be used. Odd wording from my side.
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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by woleium on Saturday July 22, 2023 @03:06PM (#36828858)
Ok grampa, let's use DNS. Should we all type code out by hand as well?
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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by riffic on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:29PM (#36822585)
not really how it works but your imagination is healthy.
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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by niij on Saturday July 22, 2023 @12:03PM (#36827372)
There's precedent. The .su (Soviet Union) ccTLD is still around. It takes registrations at the second level and is open to registrations from anyone regardless of nationality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su

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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by nkko on Saturday July 22, 2023 @02:24AM (#36823823)
There are some examples https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.yu
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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by xcdzvyn on Saturday July 22, 2023 @04:09AM (#36824396)
But we got .rs and .me in exchange. The world just wants to maximize domain hacks :)
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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by qingcharles on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:35PM (#36818504)
And there is a lot of precedent for removing ccTLDs for countries that no longer exist, regardless of what is using them, e.g. East Germany, USSR etc.
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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by smsm42 on Friday July 21, 2023 @04:11PM (#36819011)
.su still alive. Given it's controlled by Russia and widely used for scams I wouldn't recommend going to any site registered in that domain necessarily, but it has not been removed and likely won't be anytime soon.
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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by qingcharles on Sunday July 23, 2023 @06:26PM (#36840564)
Thank you, I stand corrected :)
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Re:Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of... by smsm42 on Friday July 21, 2023 @04:08PM (#36818989)
Given that top-level domain does not have to be geographical, they can easily just keep it, just somebody else would be making money from it.
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