morrowind@lemmy.ml to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 14 days agoItch drama is getting reallemmy.mlimagemessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1853arrow-down17
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minus-squarenixcamic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·14 days agoCould Mauritius choose to keep .io? The income it would bring in would probably be bigger than their GDP.
minus-squarestevedice@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·14 days agoYes. That’s not what the regulation says, but exceptions are made all the time.
minus-squarenixcamic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·14 days agoYeah but they UK has like 5 other domains besides .io
minus-squaresteventhedev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 days agoccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it’s deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO
minus-squarenixcamic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 days agoBut why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.
minus-squaresteventhedev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoHalf grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent. ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.
Could Mauritius choose to keep .io? The income it would bring in would probably be bigger than their GDP.
Yes. That’s not what the regulation says, but exceptions are made all the time.
Nope. They already have .mu
Yeah but they UK has like 5 other domains besides .io
ccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it’s deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO
But why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.
Half grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent.
ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.