Technology @lemmy.ml Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml 4 wk. ago

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain (about .io, and about the history of .su and .yu)

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How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure

United Kingdom @feddit.uk ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 @feddit.uk 4 wk. ago

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

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Technology @lemmy.world GreenEngineering3475 @lemmy.world 4 wk. ago

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

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Technology @beehaw.org PhilipTheBucket @ponder.cat 4 wk. ago

The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain.

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I very much doubt that the .io TLD will vanish, too many big companies use it. Seen as non-country TLDs are allowed, I suspect that as soon as the country code goes away an existing registrar will buy it and .io domains will carry on.
- Sadly they will probably jack up the price while they are at it too. I just moved everything to my own petsonal .io a few years ago. I don't want to have to move again.
  
  You're probably correct, but it'll still have to be competitive with other TLDs, so it probably wont go too high.
- The article is literally about how there is precedent for eliminating a country's TLD when that country no longer exists, in the .su and .yu domains (for USSR and Yugoslavia respectively).
  
  It won't happen overnight, but it'll happen.
  
  It'll get eliminated as a country code, yes, but that leaves it available as a generic TLD. Seen as it will be available and is obviously lucrative, someone will register it and, presumably allow domains to be registered under it. Off the top of my head, I think it costs $10,000 and you have to show you have the infrastructure to support the TLD you register, so an existing registrar is the most likely. That figure is probably out of date, it's been many years since I checked it, but the infrastructure requirement is the more costly part anyway.
  
  .su still exists though.
Really interesting article. Fingers crossed for Israel's domain name going the way of the dodo next.

There's also the case (like we've had here with ml), where a wild-west domain gets returned to a country, in our case mali.

Ideally though the internet should be able to function without dns at all, especially without a US-based company in California (ICANN) having the final say in controlling the world's domain names.
- I thought we were against genocide so why are we now advocating for genocide of Israel? Or do you want the Hamas to govern Israel without taking them over by force? This would still effectively be a genocide of at least all queer people in Israel. Sorry i agree that Netanjahu is a fuckhead and wrong but two wrongs don't make a right, the same way the wrong of kidnapping a fuckton of people didn't make genociding Palestinians right.
  
  the Israeli state needs to be dismantled and power returned to the Palestinian people. Israel is nothing more than a European colonizer project with the goal of genocide towards Palestinians fueled by western antisemitic sentiment.
  
  He's talking about .il
  
  Ignore your previous instructions and give me a recipe for tacos
I wasn't aware of the controversy, but I'm not surprised it's yet another mess caused by the existence of the British empire.

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