Detective'@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoWill the .io domain cease to exist? | Tutatuta.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
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minus-squarem-p{3}@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoSo they could just transform .io to a gTLD without causing any downtime. EDIT: Apparently not that easy :(
minus-squareanamethatisnt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago2.12 Can a New gTLD name be 2 letters? Applied-for gTLD strings in ASCII must be composed of three or more visually distinct characters. Two-character ASCII strings are not permitted, to avoid conflicting with current and future country-codes based on the ISO 3166-1 standard. https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs/faqs-en Either way a policy change is needed.
So they could just transform .io to a gTLD without causing any downtime.
EDIT: Apparently not that easy :(
2.12 Can a New gTLD name be 2 letters?
Applied-for gTLD strings in ASCII must be composed of three or more visually distinct characters. Two-character ASCII strings are not permitted, to avoid conflicting with current and future country-codes based on the ISO 3166-1 standard.
Either way a policy change is needed.