Comment by chippiewill
7 months ago
Turning dot-io into a gTLD is certainly seems like the best course of action, but I think it's far from likely that ICANN will do that considering that there are no other two-letter gTLDs.
7 months ago
Turning dot-io into a gTLD is certainly seems like the best course of action, but I think it's far from likely that ICANN will do that considering that there are no other two-letter gTLDs.
Why would the length of the domain name matter?
By policy, 2-letter TLDs are reserved for ccTLDs, matching ISO country codes.
There are not that many two letter codes (a comment said 26*26= 676) and they are reserved for country codes. Global tlds are three letters and up (eg com org etc)
Well, this one is special, by virtue of being in widespread commercial use.
ICANN will act in whatever manner causes them the least trouble, which will be to retain the status quo. They have absolutely no incentive to behave otherwise.
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because there are fewer combinations of two-letter codes. This is also why they are reserved to actual countries.
Yeah but it's not like ISO is going to reuse the code "io" for some other future country.
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