.io Domains Are Going Away?? 

He's all we've got until a new Firefox addon is made to replicate the experience.

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just like a digital screen reader, it keeps messing up the pronunciations.

youre so underrated

@@sam3317 The country of Morishes

As the former showrunner for Marvel's Agents of SHIELD once said, " it's all connected "

there is literally already a domain called .tech

metal gear plot kojima predicted it all

You'd think it's easy, but look up Sealand for example, to get a country recognized by the UN usually takes years. And it has to be an inhabited island as well, with it's own laws, regulations, nationality, flag, passport, etc. ICANN uses the ISO 3166 list. So you might also have to convince: "There are fifteen experts with voting rights on the ISO 3166/MA. Nine are representatives of national standards organizations."

Epstein Island 😂😂

That's just Ireland though

And we are here to witness it and explain it in the future

Alphabet claiming an Island as a nation named Io.

Aren't all 2 letter ones supposed to be for and only for a country? It's part of a standard right?

@@NihongoWakannai Yeah its a standard and I'm not suggesting wildwest but the idea that a country stops existing and therefore technology will break seems dumb to me. Imagine any businesses actually in Mooorriisshussz that hosted SaaS products - they would be massively affected by some political shenanigans. I'm not sure what happens if a country changes it name either

OK, so who will host the domain ? Who will handle the automation of nameserver IP changes ? etc.

A political change like whether a country exists is a major one and a lot of things break. The ccTLD is not that important. Basing your business identity on ccTLD that the business doesn't exist in, is extremely risky. ccTLDs were not meant to be issued to companies outside of those countries.

A petname system eliminates debacles of this sort, in part, by devaluing recognizable regions of the global namespace. Of course, this comes at the cost of further atomizing culture, allowing for the distribution of whole namespaces with your preferred sociotechnical and political flavor.

Yeah! Why can’t they just give HongKong back?

Because everyone knows that rules apply to everyone, except the ones that made them in the first place.

because Hong Kong simply didn't just stop existing, unlike this territory (but I'm sure they will find a way) Also, these other territories are separate political entities, it's unclear at the moment if it will continue to be that way when Mauritius gets the Chagos Archipelago.

> Also, if Britain can have lots of different "countries" for domain purposes The internal political structure of the British Empire is so incredibly messy, that compared to the structure of the US, it's like high school and kindergarten. For example the UK is a country inside of the structure called the British Empire. And think about it this way: There is never a British team in international sports competitions, there are English, Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh, etc. teams because from a diplomatic pov, these are also kinda countries and kinda not at the same time.

guernsey is not part of the uk (.gg)

That likely won’t exist due to climate change: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Tuvalu

@@Dude6978 I mean it will still exist under water. No rule says your country can't be under water.

@@rolu9345 sure, but basically all the people will be refugees to other countries. It’s just an example if it’s removed from the ISO numbers then it’s gone as far as the current rules stand

​@@rolu9345 soon to be twitch.atlantis

Yeah I went through the .au registration stuff a little while ago. Its a classic case of both sides being dumb - people not paying attention to the risk and the country taking advantage of a cash grab.

This is mostly right, but it's not that you must have a business presence or whatever to register a domain from a country, rather it's that you have to follow the rules of the country's registrar, some of which have that requirement. The Australian one that another commenter refers to not only requires that you have some presence in that country, but also that you have a claim to the name (e.g. trademark, registered business name etc.)

This clearly is the country's decision, not the standard bearer. tk, cc, gg, and other small countries cared more about the income for the hacks than stupid local presence that iNanny can't enforce.

as an anarchist, I am amused by the claim that the government has more of a right to my land than... you know, me

@@FourOf92000 the only validity a right can have comes from communal recognition. this is why anarchy is so stupid because anarchy means might makes right, which in turn means that anarchy only exists as an interim period in so far as the largest organization hasn't yet consolidated power. you live in an anarchical society right now wherein the government is just the largest group of people enforcing their rights upon the people. congrats i guess, you're living your dream.

Will the USA as a country in its current form outlive me? Maybe as I'm not particularly young now, but I wouldn't be 100% sure. The UK itself is one of the oldest countries in the world, if you count England as being part of the UK history. If you do, then some of the Cantons that make up what is now Switzerland are older. Jersey is arguably older (England's history starts when Normandy invaded it, Normandy lost its territory in mainland France and Jersey is what remains). Denmark is a bit older, Japan is undisputedly the oldest.

Can wait for Puerto Rico to gain independence so that we get the .pr domain

@@aliasjon8320 _.pu_ 😈

Old yugoslavia

Decline of imperialism is such a weird thing for me to hear. To this day in my country we're taught history of Europe and not our own. To be fair we do, it's just not really. History in school here is split between history of the world and history of our country. History of the world is just history of Europe, while history of our country starts when Europeans arrived here and is told from their perspective. No locals were left alive to hear from, lmao. History of literature could be boiled down to a bunch of dudes getting inspired by the European art movements at the time and trying to bring it here. To this day a lot of people think Europe is like the birth of human civilization and high culture or something, and a lot of the culture we consume here is either American, Japanese or European. Our music has taken off, but even though I think our cinema is fire it isn't nearly as popular as American movies. I have a heavy suspicion most colonized countries are very similar. I'm from Brazil btw

wdym by "pretended"? The UK is legally not part of the EU anymore, even if it's still in Europe. Whether it was a good decision is a different conversation.

@@SKAOG21also uk businesses did not lose access to .eu.

Really, the EU outlawed this? That's awesome! Domain parking sucks worse than a tick.

But how will they know that you bought it 'just to have it first'? You could put a personal website on it for a year, then sell...

@@zitronekoma30 EU with their regulatory overreach as always.

@@paulthomann5544 The EU itself sucks worse than a tick

@@massimo4307 this is totally reasonable idk what you're on about

buy your io domain while you can so it's vintage!

afaik it's not a single political territory, so therefore there's not an ISO standard for it (one of these territories is the French Southern and Antarctic Lands with TF as the ISO 2-letter code)

@@lakelimbo It was a joke, and you are completely right. But just to annoy the British, I would love to split TAAF in two ^^. Plus, it's welcomed money given the current budget crisis :p (let ignore it is millions vs billions).

Time to gamble on domains!

​@@Kane0123What a time to be alive 😂

Same here, just grabbed one last month. 🤦‍♂️

Same. I bought one for a project I’m working and hope someone can figure something out because I like my domain.

Same lol. I had tens of domains, and this was my first IO in my life last month... never felt so cursed.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh😱😱

Bro just discovered his own mortality.

Die can be reordered as IDE, Neovim btw. Primeagen, blazingly fast, efficient keybindings, I touched a woman and cried

When he said "big floppies" I thought 8".

@@ArthurGreen-bw3sb ah. the 8" was the first floppy to be released, some time in the late 60s. the commonly available size was 80kb. (later versions of the 8" stored more data, up to 1.2MB even, but i think the more modern formats were more commonly used.)

But they're not called the Indian Ocean. The writer is presuming they will want their own domain (they'd be stupid to want it, but...)

@@DxBlack Britain wasn't called the Indian Ocean either...

@@awdsqe123 The political entity known as Chagos archipelago is formally known as "British Indian Ocean Territory" (BIOT), which is where the "io" comes from. It is not part of the UK, and is politically distinct, just like Guernsey, Jersey, Anguilla etc. with their own governments, which is why they are recognised in the ISO list of countries and territories.

because Mauritius is not a real country and has no military power

yeah if they're smart they do this

They'll rename to Ionia, just to f*** with Greece

Can't they just create an autonomous region that governs effectively no one to retain the name? The only link they have to the territory is colonization anyway.

I can see Mauritius renaming themselves just to stop all the RU-vidrs butchering the name 😂

@@Y2B123 Well yes I suppose they can decide to retain the status for the most part which would make ISO keep the IO handle for them

I think that's exactly what's gonna happen

Does that mean we can have .JS ?

@@natescode Now you just want to watch the world burn.

they could get free migration to .iou or whoever else that offers to house them

Rent*

​@@HUEHUEUHEPony Okay, sure technically you're renting it as if you let it lapse, anyone can buy it. But as long as you continue to renew it, you essentially own it. Personally, I believe refusing to let a business that has sunk millions into building a domains value renew it is unethical at best. At worst, grounds for a massive lawsuit.

Most floppies don't have nearly that much stature

8 inch floppy is impressive ngl

Agreed. That'd lead to really dumb domains like ".zip"...

​@@Kane0123three+ letter domains are free for all - so you long as you have ~400k to give to ICANN

Why would you care who owns the top-level domain ? as long as they keep existing and you can still conduct business.

I don't want to google that...

Czechoslovakia too! 😂

Soviet union?

I have always thought that any large company that used a two letter tld is, ipso facto, sus.

they should just alter the rule about tld with 2 letters being gTLDs, problem solved. the geopolitics can be fought in the UN court or with real artillery, who cares.

@@monad_tcp Yes, because large corporations should be able to just change the rules and get away with what they want. /S

Why? 2 letters for countries and everything else mostly fair game sounds like a good compromise. Especially so as the 2 letters (mostly) come from an external standard. Just think about the ruckus .amazon caused ... Pissed off half of South America ...

nah just the Amazon / Brazilian folks ;) way more than half the area but very little population (within the Amazon itself)

STEP 1: Grant independence to Iowa STEP 2: ????? STEP 3: Profit

His pronouncing has killed a couple of people. You are not alone!

Theo didn't do any better. Only those that know how to pronounce it, will

Moore Rishus

if the rule is stupid, it's not going to be followed

😂

No, that's a him issue because he wanted to sound silly (idiot) for the video. He knows he can go to Google for the pronunciation.

@@DxBlack Goodness me, I bet you’re always fairly close to the bottom of BBQ invitation lists 😂 It’s just a bit of light hearted fun, don’t take it too seriously

Two letter domains cannot be generic from what I understand

Finish the article/video.

But it's two letters tho !

@@moussaadem7933I’m just imagining a bunch of tech companies about to start a war over this 😂

I think it’s more if they can convince ICAN to allow them to

In .su, domain registers you.

It is still partially used for some university networks operated by RAS, interestingly.

Yeah and it was meant to be retired

Yeah, I have asked myself that plenty over the years.... money...?

Now that you say it, it really makes no sense, maybe for brand purposes like some product being from some country, but I have seen websites use multiple domains and just redirect so that's kinda pointless? Aside from the fact a lot of sites would go down there is really no point in their continued existence

@@fitmotheyap yeah... i suppose its just because countries are given the rights to them and then they sell them off for money? Though surely there's a way to set things up where they can't do that...

The official country name is British Indian Ocean Territories. Also, what domain could you make out of Chagos Island? ch is Switzerland, ca is Canada, cg is Congo, co is Colombia, ci is Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).

@@katrinabryce I thought sovereignty was granted to the islands, why would they keep the old name? It seems when countries are created, they adopt new names. This seems like there are still plenty of options/decisions available.

The original population was forceably moved to Mauritius in '65. Current inhabitant is "the Military" (UK and US nationals). Before '65 the islands were part of Mauritius and now they are given back to Mauritius.

Does that mean the official country is now Mauritius? Why wouldn’t the country domain be .mu then?

That would be the direct result, yes. .io ceases to exist and genuinely local registrations would move from .io to .mu. I don't think there are any, though. But with all the money that is at play here, I have no idea what the end result will be. I mean regarding .amazon, the ICANN ignored South American objections and allowed Amazon to register that brand gTLD.