Comment by droidist2
4 years ago
I figured it wasn't effortless to run, but they're adding new TLDs all the time like .ninja, .wow, .xyz and are up to over 1500 different TLDs. Compared to creating a random new TLD, is keeping .tw around really such a burden if there are many websites already using it?
It is a political issue, not a technical issue.
It may not be. But for country level TLDs a company or organization actually manages the DNS server software - it may run "in the cloud" or not - but someone still have to mange that software and the host it runs on. (In addition to enforcing the policies and payments associated with that TLD.)
gTLDs are not ccTLDs, though. The gTLDs all run under the same standardized contract / set of rules, and if you're already running 1 then it's pretty easy to scale that to running N.
ccTLDs though are much more like special snowflakes though. There's a large difference in policies, features, technical implementations, etc., from one ccTLD to another.
Can a ccTLD be converted to a gTLD? Is that sort of what happened to .io?