IIRC after the big .io outage in 2017 arguably at the height of every startup under the sun using it for their fresh sites & services it was widely advised not to being using the ccTLD or any other one for business and project launches. This on top of the sketchy handover stuff that happened with the entity controlling it. The avalanche of new TLDs soon after took care of needs for many/the fad passed.
> The IANA may fudge its own rules and allow .io to continue to exist.
Important sentence (in second-to-last paragraph) that shouldn't get overlooked. Nobody has yet said it will be wound down. But this is an interesting piece and worth reading, regardless.
Exactly. You can still register new domains under .su, even though the evil empire hasn't existed since well before the web became popular, and both Russia and formerly occupied and now independent nations have their own TLDs now.
Quite an interesting history read. I would think .io is popular enough right now that one of the majors would happily offer to absorb it, and the renewal fees that go with it
Edit- i see now its already managed by Internet Computer Bureau
It effectively belongs to Identity Digital, the largest operator of top-level domains. I assume negotiations will shortly commence involving both Mauritius and ID.
It can be resurrected with a crypto domain name service (a reference to the web 3 industry for cryptographers that are still pretending like context isn’t obvious). there are plenty now.
since .io is already tech scene this one will be easy to resolve
of course you can do it without crypto but since this will be baked into wallets that people already have as browser extensions it will actually work
IIRC after the big .io outage in 2017 arguably at the height of every startup under the sun using it for their fresh sites & services it was widely advised not to being using the ccTLD or any other one for business and project launches. This on top of the sketchy handover stuff that happened with the entity controlling it. The avalanche of new TLDs soon after took care of needs for many/the fad passed.
> The IANA may fudge its own rules and allow .io to continue to exist.
Important sentence (in second-to-last paragraph) that shouldn't get overlooked. Nobody has yet said it will be wound down. But this is an interesting piece and worth reading, regardless.
Exactly. You can still register new domains under .su, even though the evil empire hasn't existed since well before the web became popular, and both Russia and formerly occupied and now independent nations have their own TLDs now.
10-3: https://domainincite.com/30395-future-of-io-domains-uncertai...
I taglined it with ".io shit what now?"
Quite an interesting history read. I would think .io is popular enough right now that one of the majors would happily offer to absorb it, and the renewal fees that go with it
Edit- i see now its already managed by Internet Computer Bureau
It effectively belongs to Identity Digital, the largest operator of top-level domains. I assume negotiations will shortly commence involving both Mauritius and ID.
It can be resurrected with a crypto domain name service (a reference to the web 3 industry for cryptographers that are still pretending like context isn’t obvious). there are plenty now.
since .io is already tech scene this one will be easy to resolve
of course you can do it without crypto but since this will be baked into wallets that people already have as browser extensions it will actually work