Comment by mywittyname

7 months ago

I mean, the TLD .pizza exists, so could .io move to the same mechanism that allows those to exist? Or is it something like 2-3 character TLDs are reserved for country codes?

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lolinder  7 months ago

Two character TLDs are reserved for country codes, and they're meant to reflect a very specific ISO-standardized list of country codes:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

Breaking with ISO 3166-1 comes with the risk that a new ISO-standardized country cannot claim its TLD.

So in order to reclaim the TLD as generic, startups dont just have to persuade ICANN, they have to make the case to ISO that IO is a significant enough code that it should be an "exceptional reservation" like UK, UN, EU, and SU.

saaaaaam  7 months ago

.pizza is a gTLD (generic top level domain) rather than a ccTLD (country code top level domain). ICANN rules say that gTLDs have to have three characters or more. So you can have .xyz but not .xo