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Comment by CalChris

7 months ago

ISO 3166-1 is maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency which has members from agencies like ANSI, BSI, DIN, …. No way are they going to just let .io simply go out of existence. It's more like that Mauritius will attain ownership and then manage it similarly to other 'gTLDs'.

  .co is owned by Columbia
  .tv is owned by Tuvalu
  .me is owned by Montenegro

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andyjohnson0  7 months ago

.co, .tv, and .me are ccTLDs not gTLDs. They're the ISO 3166 codes for those countries.

Some English-speaking people may treat them as global and not linked to countries, but they're not. The difference with .io is that BIOT was never a country and soon won't exist - whereas those countries have existed and will continue [1] to exist.

[1] quite possibly with the unfortunate exception of Tuvalu