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That means the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist, along with the .io domain and countless websites.
That is most definitely not how it works.
That is most definitely exactly exactly how it works.
That is definitely how it works unless IANA creates an exception for the .io TLD and keeps it alive.
No, that is not how the ccTLD is enforced by IANA. It has sole authority, and it is not automatic is any way. There have been a total of two retired domains, one in like 95 and km 2000.
They will not retire a domain under heavy use such as .io.
Yes, that is how the ccTLD is enforced by IANA.. And it is in fact an automatic process. There is a policy for requesting a single 5 year extension, but that extension request must be accompanied by a retirement plan, otherwise by policy the ccTLD has a 5 year grace period before being removed.
They will not retire a domain under heavy use such as .io.
Heavy use has not stopped them from attempting to retire other ccTLDs, it just delays the process.
Given how popular these domains are with large tech companies, I can’t see it going away
Yeah, and even the .su (Soviet Union) domain still exists. There is no way that a TLD as popular as .io will not remain active.
.su exists in spite of the policy of IANA, not because of them. The popularity of a ccTLD has no relevance to its continued existence.
.su only exists because the ccTLD retirement policy wasn’t fully defined until recently.
