quant@leminal.spacetoTechnology@beehaw.org•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.English
4·
6 days agoTwo letters TLD like .io
are ISO country codes. Catalonia’s .cat
is a generic TLD in comparison. Since .io
stands for the British Indian Ocean Territory and Chagos Island isn’t going to be ‘separate’ anymore by becoming part of Mauritius, IANA’s logic is that the ccTLD has to be retired. That .su
is still around after the collapse of USSR isn’t a valid argument for them.
A tragedy for the family and the colleagues. On the other hand, Putin’s cronies were killing their own journalists digging up dirts around the Chechen wars. Nothing to be surprised from those gangsters who took over a gas station.