An interesting question arising from today’s deal to hand the Chagos islands back to Mauritius is: what happens to the .io ccTLD with the dissolution of the British Indian Ocean Territory? Presumably it passes to Mauritius, but do they keep it or scrap it, or change how the registry works?
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Ben Harris
in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •The only instance of an in-use ccTLD being withdrawn that I found in IANAs reports was .TP:
iana.org/reports/2015/tp-repor…
In that case, Portuguese Timor stopped existing in 2002, new registrations were stopped in 2005, and the domain was finally withdrawn in 2015.
Report on the Removal of the .TP top-level domain representing Portuguese Timor
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