
There is a satellite of Jupiter looking out for a TLD ...
The .io country code top-level domain (ccTLD) will not disappear anytime soon, at least not within the next five years. Beyond that, its future is uncertain. Countries, territories, and the like have letter codes and these have been used as the basis for internet domains. The United States, for example, has the .us domain. The …
github.io hosts GitHub Pages, millions of GitHub-hosted static webpages associated with open source GitHub repositories. It doesn't impact just tech bros, but open source developers in general.
Before anyone downvotes me on the presumption that the Venn diagrams of the two groups is a circle, I have a github.io page, but I am not male (the Guy Fawkes mask can be misleading), so the distinction isn't trivial or hypothetical.
ThatOne: some of them are bound to work.
cow: Missiles are a very complicated thing.
There are several things we can learn from these 5 failed tests. THere probably have been more, 5 is what the american sats have seen, there prpbably have been more.
ONe doesnt just leave any machine in the elements for 10 or more years and expect it to work perfectly. The fuel is toxic and extremely corrosive. Other radio active elements also require replacement.
Even the R themselves know their missiles cannot be trust, and 5 fails in a row shows us this is true and more importantly it also tells the R that their stuff doesnt work.
Retiring 1.6 million domains because of a political change like this would be ludicrous. I'm sure not all 1.6 million are being used for email but many will be and a person's email address is practically your identity these days. Many service provide no way to change your email address and locating every service you've ever signed up with would be a nightmare. Not to mention that this is going to break a lot of websites and if not carefully managed in advance, will open the door to copycat websites using other TLDs claiming to be the new official site. As the article states though, it does seem pretty unlikely they will actually retire it.
"As the article states though, it does seem pretty unlikely they will actually retire it."
It would take a while. First the treaty has to be ratified - TFA says next year. Then it has to be formally handed over. Then - and this might be the big one - ISO has to change the standard. Only then does the 5 year retirement interval start.
Politics isn’t meant to be rational. If Mauritius claimed the use of .io was neo-colonialism, it would be hard for the INIA (or ISO) to resist the political pressure to remove it. Unless, of course, there was money to be made…
I expect .io to be retained, but control of the domain to go to Mauritius, who will re-negotiate the payment scheme with Bellevue.
The UK took control of the islands. They kicked the Chagossians out, left them with literally nothing. Suddenly .io became valuable. So Great Britain promptly stole the domain name from the people, and sold it to some VC company or other. The Chagossians got nothing.
Suddenly this night change. And the British snowflakes are worried this might change their standing with the tech bros. Sure enough, you're complaining about being accused of neo-colonialism. Well guess what - you're colonialists!
Give and let someone else make money, surely pigs will fly before that happens.
Given the funding of “not for profit” groups such as Nominet etc. I suspect unless Mauritius requests ISO to retain the .io abbreviation, simply changing it from being a shortened form of: British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius Indian Ocean Territory, ICANN will be tempted to auction the domain….
As for the rules about two letter domain names, well ICANN can very easily change them…