• panja 9 months ago

    There is no way .io would share that same fate

    • coolspot 9 months ago

      Notably, .su domain for Soviet Union is alive and well, comrades.

      • NikkiA 9 months ago

        As is .hk which is perhaps a better example

      • ChrisArchitect 9 months ago

        Related:

        The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

        https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778633

        • stonethrowaway 9 months ago

          My .com domain hoarding/scalping is paying off by the sheer virtue of other TLDs becoming unreliable over time.

          TANSTAAFL.

          • tonetegeatinst 9 months ago

            Should have hoarded .gov .mil and .edu

            The ROI for selling those would be insane.

          • zoezoezoezoe 9 months ago

            > ICANN’s policy on ccTLDs is pretty straightforward — your territory has to be on the ISO 3166 list and the ccTLD has to match the code ISO gives you. If your code drops off the list, you have five years, extensible to 10, to conduct an orderly transition before the TLD is retired. Yeah, no, on the ISO 3166 list the soviet union is notably absent, and that country has been gone for over 30 years and yet, you can still buy a .su domain to this day if you wanted. ICANN considers the usage of the domains and how potentially damaging it could be to remove a domain, I strongly strongly believe that .io is here to stay.