Comment by drpossum
6 months ago
As someone with an io domain, I really appreciate this post. I've had general fears that political decisions would be made that would make trouble for me on top of the standard business decisions to take as much as they can from me.
Now it seems likely I will only have to worry about the hedge funds!
As fun as the .io TLD is, its entire sordid history is a shitshow.
It's a novelty TLD, and anyone who used it expecting stability should have looked for a different flag of convenience.
Won't the hedge fund have to acquiesce to the ICANN if it demands that .Io be shut down? Afaik, ICANN only allows two letter domains for countries.
Alternatively ICANN might (should imo) transfer the TLD registrar to Mauritius.
It doesn't really track that the original creation of .io being sordid means a political change won't have implications, (possibly even) modelled on and/or justified by the questionable history..
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Oh be quiet. That’s a ludicrously uncharitable interpretation of what they were saying, all in service of you…getting to be…snarky?
I knew what I was getting into and the risks involved.