Comment by pluc

4 years ago

A similar situation happened with Canada's third-level domains:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.qc.ca#Third-level_(provincial...

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donmcronald  4 years ago

AFAIK no one lost their domains when that happened. IIRC there was even an opportunity to move from a third level domain to a matching second level domain.

That’s a lot different than having a TLD disappear along with all the domains.

  • pluc  4 years ago

    I don't see any of those domains today so I assume they were asked to migrate somehow?

    • donmcronald  4 years ago

      I think a lot migrated to second level domains. I don’t remember exactly how it worked, but third level domain owners got the first chance at the matching second level domains. There are still some on third level domains, but mostly to avoid collisions I think.

srmarm  4 years ago

Didn't the US have a domain format like this, I seem to remember it being cited as a reason that .com became the default for US businesses.