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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by crote on Thursday October 03, 2024 @01:33PM (#41732865)
And it doesn't matter what the registrars choose to do when the entire ".io" TLD gets kicked out of the root name servers - who in turn are following the official zone file as published by ICANN.

Accepting registrations for a domain is pretty useless when those domains aren't going to resolve to anything.

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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by alexchamberlain on Thursday October 03, 2024 @01:57PM (#41733094)
But do the root name servers _have_ to respect the ICANN zone file?
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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by notatoad on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:13PM (#41733289)
at least one of the root name servers is hosted by ICANN, so there's essentially zero chance that all of the roots will choose to disrgard the ICANN zone file.
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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by dogma1138 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:02PM (#41733812)
If an ICANN decision would be seen as detrimental to the smooth operation of the global DNS network yes there is, their server would simply be quarantined yes it would be a problem since root servers are “hardcoded” in many places but for the most part all the major DNS services can continue to operate without them for a while at least.
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Re:Ask HN: What happens to ".io" TLD after UK gives back the... by dmkolobov on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:52PM (#41734283)
A bunch of startups losing out on domains they bought despite best practices is not an event I would call “detrimental to the smooth operation of the global DNS network”.

This was a known and willfully ignored business risk for these places.

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