Bombshell: .io domains may be on the way out

Wow, this is a sobering read. Britain is about to relinquish control of the British Indian Ocean Territory, meaning that the popular .io TLD could be on the way out (if the rules get followed). It will be interesting to see how this pans out (codepen.io, anyone?) I’ve always been tentative about using these kinds of domains that could turn on you one way or another (like those new custom domains that could jack up their prices, for example), but hadn’t thought about country-specific TLDs disappearing.

You can read about it here:

Interesting. Though the US and UK won’t be giving Diego Garcia back, they’ll be keeping that for another century (at least), and… they are at present the entire population of that area, with no plans to move people out… so… uhm… does the BIOT still exist? Kind of? It lost a lot of land, but the people are still there, and they have a defined space, so… i dunno.

It also requires a series of steps, starting with an actual approved treaty (they…havent actually gotten the paperwork sorted out. It’s been announced that it’s going to happen. An announcement of a plan to make a deal. Because governments), then the ISO people have to update the ISO, then IANA begins their clocks…

So in 2030, maybe it’ll be gone. Or maybe it’ll still linger on.

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Sounds like it will be called something else once owned by Mauritius.

Interesting perspective on the future of .io domains! It will be fascinating to see how this impacts the tech community.

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