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Itch.io games site taken down (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)

I was hoping to find a statement from the aggressor, but it seems to be too early.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

ICANN is pretty strict about this following some complications that happened back in the 90's . No country, no country code, no domain. No matter who, no matter what.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

.io will be removed from a country code and over to a cosmetic domain like .sex

It’s really not that complicated

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That would make it the only 2 letter non country code top level domain. And could also cause issues if another country is later assigned io as it's 2 letter country code by ISO

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No, it would make it the second 2 letter non country code top level domain. .su is the other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No it would be the first. .su is still considered a CCTLD http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/su.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And so could .io

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's unlikely as ICANN has said that it will retire the domain if io is removed from ISO 3166-1 https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-chagos-archipelago-and-the-io-domain-14-11-2024-en

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

All this says is there is "likely" to be a consultation and changes "may" be made.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, .su still exists.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That is the event that icann uses as it's reason to be strict about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

And so do Soviet Union too. /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Though they have made odd decisions before. IO is generic and widely-used enough that it doesn't seem implausible that they might change it to not be tied to the Indian Ocean territories.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The only thing you can rely on from ICANN is that they will do whatever is most profitable for their board members.