Ela (@[email protected])

Britain finally handed an archipelago back to Mauritius, making the British Indian Ocean Territories cease to exist as a state. Thus, the .io TLD will vanish. Fun trip down Internet history here: https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure

ccTLDs are risky business

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⚠️ .io domain^1 likely being phased-out^2 — seven suggested steps Good article in The Verge summarizing recent .io related events, see that for more context if this is news to you: * https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/8/24265441/uk-treaty-end-io-domain-chagos-islands It looks likely .io (and .io domains) will go away in the next few years (as .cs and .yu did^3), so here are my suggested steps to take depending on your usage of .io domains: 1. Avoid buying new .io domains (or making plans with existing ones; sell if you can) 2. If you currently run a .io service^4 (for a company or community), make and publicize a transition plan (like a new domain, redirection, orderly shutdown plan for redirects) 3. If you have a personal site on a .io domain^5 or subdomain, make your own transition plan, and perhaps post about how others should link to your posts 4. If you are using someone else’s .io domain to publish (like #GitHubPages^6), make a transition plan to publish elsewhere and leave a forwarding note and link behind 5. If you use a .io domain as your Web sign-in login on any sites, switch them to another non-io personal domain 6. Similarly if your site accepts #WebSignIn logins (via #IndieAuth, #RelMeAuth, or even #OpenID), consider discouraging any new sign-ups from .io domains, and warning any existing users with .io domains to switch per # 5 7. If you have posts (or a whole #indieweb site) with links to .io sites or pages (like those in 2-4 above), make a plan for editing those links to point to an alternative or an archival copy (like on the Internet Archive) And of course, post about your #dotIO plans. Glossary Domain https://indieweb.org/domain IndieAuth https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/ OpenID https://indieweb.org/OpenID Redirect https://indieweb.org/redirect RelMeAuth https://indieweb.org/RelMeAuth Web sign-in https://indieweb.org/Web_sign-in References: ^1 https://indieweb.org/.io ^2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io#Phasing_Out ^3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cs ^4 E.g. https://indieweb.org/webmention.io or https://indieweb.org/granary.io ^5 E.g. https://indieweb.org/werd.io ^6 https://indieweb.org/github.io This is post 25 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts ← https://tantek.com/2024/283/t1/metaphors-constructive-cooperative-joyful → https://tantek.com/2024/287/t1/fediverse-unfollow-bridgyfed-bug - Tantek

.IO domain names aren't going away - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

It’s highly unlikely registrants will lose their domains because of the UK’s treaty. You’ve likely seen several articles over the past week warning that .io domain names might be in jeopardy. Years ago, I would have jumped on this bandwagon. But I don’t think .io domain owners have anything to worry about. What’s happening? Like […]

Top-Level-Domain .io könnte bald verschwinden

Das Ende einer bekannten Domain-Endung kündigt sich an. Durch politische Veränderungen wird bald die Ära der vor allem bei Startup-Firmen und in Crypto-Kreisen beliebten Top-Level-Domain *.io enden. Der Hintergrund: das dazugehörige Land "verschwindet".

.io domain might be going away (#1133) · Issues · GitLab.org / gitlab-pages · GitLab

Summary The United Kingdom is relinquishing sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, which had the "io"...

Tony Finch (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] yeah there’s a nice summary at https://domainincite.com/30406-five-times-icann-deleted-a-cctld-and-what-it-means-for-io the crucial thing is how Mauritius decides to handle the territory if i were them, i would arrange to keep chagos separate enough that ISO 3166 MA agree it can continue to have its own code, and name chagos so it can keep the code IO then insist to IANA that chagos should have sovereign control over the .io TLD, while keeping everything working then use the income to compensate the chagossians

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure