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Every asked me about how real world events can screw with top level internet domains.
Come for the story of how a bunch of Slovenian academics allegedly stole control of the .yu domain. Stay for why the entire .io TLD might be about to disappear due to a minor treaty between Britain and Mauritius. https://buff.ly/3zTcZyt #tech
@garius I was expecting .ly to be an earlier test scenario for people’s funky-domain disaster-recovery plans, but here we are.
@riotnrrd indeed
@garius I feel it's much more likely that someone discovers that it's a source of revenue and keeps it alive.
@garius ".io has become popular with startups, particularly those involved in crypto."
Oh no!
Anyway...
Any reason why .io won't be reinstated as a topic domain, like .net, .com, .systems , ... ?
@albertcardona breaks another key rule: gTLDs can't be two characters. That's deliberate to distinguish them from ccTLDs.
Doesn't mean they WON'T do that. But it's another precedent they may not wish to set.
@garius lovely piece, thanks for writing it up!
And, sorry to be „that guy“ but »On September 19, 1990, the IANA created and delegated the top-level domain .su to the USSR. Just six weeks later, the Berlin Wall fell« has a mistake: the wall fell in Nov 89, either the IANA date is wrong or it’s about the German reunification (Oct 90). 
@gedankenstuecke well spotted! Result of tweaks and edits. Will get fixed. 
@garius thanks, had me doubting my own memory there for a second! 
@gedankenstuecke nah. Editor and I played around with which milestone to use and clearly overtweaked it!
@garius Fascinating read, thanks. 2024 and we're still cleaning up the mess of the British Empire, ugh.
