Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the Chagos Islands?

Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by chippiewill on Thursday October 03, 2024 @09:40AM (#41730719)

Turning dot-io into a gTLD is certainly seems like the best course of action, but I think it's far from likely that ICANN will do that considering that there are no other two-letter gTLDs.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by andyjohnson0 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @09:57AM (#41730853)

Why would the length of the domain name matter?

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by MobiusHorizons on Thursday October 03, 2024 @11:10AM (#41731503)

There are not that many two letter codes (a comment said 26*26= 676) and they are reserved for country codes. Global tlds are three letters and up (eg com org etc)

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by CamperBob2 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @12:24PM (#41732193)

Well, this one is special, by virtue of being in widespread commercial use.

ICANN will act in whatever manner causes them the least trouble, which will be to retain the status quo. They have absolutely no incentive to behave otherwise.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by oarsinsync on Friday October 04, 2024 @04:38AM (#41739202)

> ICANN will act in whatever manner causes them the least trouble ... They have absolutely no incentive to behave otherwise

It's pretty detrimental to relationships when one side pre-declares their rules and policies, and then arbitrarily decides to ignore them.

I'd say they have a lot of incentive to behave in whatever way their published policies state, regardless of the impact to users of the cctld.

(I don't know what the policies are)

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by toyg on Thursday October 03, 2024 @10:29AM (#41731129)

because there are fewer combinations of two-letter codes. This is also why they are reserved to actual countries.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by eli on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:41PM (#41734179)

Yeah but it's not like ISO is going to reuse the code "io" for some other future country.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by toyg on Friday October 04, 2024 @07:46AM (#41740391)

You don't know that.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by kjs3 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @10:43AM (#41731268)

By policy, 2-letter TLDs are reserved for ccTLDs, matching ISO country codes.

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