PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 month agoThe British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain.every.toexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up185arrow-down1external-linkThe British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain.every.toPhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square30fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squaresanzky@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoI don’t get why they killed it. some regional areas have their own TLD. .cat for Catalonia, for example.
minus-squaret3rmit3@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoTechnically, they haven’t yet. In the past they’ve sometimes transitioned ownership of country-code TLDs over (like the Soviet Union’s .su to Russia). I think they just don’t want to wade into the debate over the Chagos Islands in general.
I don’t get why they killed it. some regional areas have their own TLD. .cat for Catalonia, for example.
Technically, they haven’t yet. In the past they’ve sometimes transitioned ownership of country-code TLDs over (like the Soviet Union’s .su to Russia). I think they just don’t want to wade into the debate over the Chagos Islands in general.