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 roryirvine on Thursday October 03, 2024 @12:32PM (#41732285)

.uk only exists because UKERNA was already using it (or, rather, UK.) for JANET's own X500-ish system that pre-dates the standardisation of DNS.

At one point, it was intended that moving the UK's internet resources to .gb would be the final stage of the transition from the internal JANET system.

By the time I first heard about that in the early 90s, that had already gained legendary "that'll never happen" status - and, sure enough, the transition was declared complete when the last UK.AC.SITE <-> ac.uk mail gateways were retired circa 1996.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by anotherhue on Thursday October 03, 2024 @01:40PM (#41732918)

There are non GB UK countries though, or at least one in NI.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by alexchamberlain on Thursday October 03, 2024 @01:55PM (#41733076)

Right, but confusingly, GB is the ISO 2 code for the United Kingdom, even though the United Kingdom is much bigger than Great Britain, where the GB abbreviation comes from.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by anotherhue on Thursday October 03, 2024 @01:58PM (#41733115)

Makes sense, also in keeping with the excessively complicated naming that thousands of years of dispute produces.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by vidarh on Thursday October 03, 2024 @07:23PM (#41736114)

Pet hate: Regularly running into dropdowns that list countries by name, but sort them by country code.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by glimmung on Friday October 04, 2024 @03:59PM (#41745045)

Thanks for explaining where that apparently random ordering comes from - drives me nuts too!

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by beojan on Thursday October 03, 2024 @11:12PM (#41737435)

At least for the identification sticker / stripe on cars we've moved from GB to UK. Maybe we'll just move to uk as the ISO 2 letter code.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by TRiG_Ireland on Friday October 04, 2024 @11:49AM (#41742637)

IVR codes are not ISO 3166-1 codes. The ISO codes are all two letters; the IVR codes range from one to three letters.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by alexchamberlain on Saturday October 05, 2024 @07:28AM (#41749158)

https://web.archive.org/web/20120616044022/http://www.iso.or...

Apparently "United" and "Kingdom" aren't valid for ISO, so they went with ignoring part of the name completely.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by xp84 on Saturday October 05, 2024 @11:58AM (#41750771)

That’s interesting. It kind of makes sense. I guess the US makes this rule kind of funny too. I guess we’re lucky we didn’t get .am for “America.”

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by ethbr1 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @01:49PM (#41733012)

.im

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by jamesog on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:40PM (#41733568)

The Isle of Man isn't part of the UK, but rather a Crown Dependency, as are Jersey (.je) and Guernsey (.gg): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Dependencies

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