@mttaggart @mwl On the flip side, "Any established...

@mttaggart @mwl On the flip side, "Any established public or private organization that meets eligibility requirements anywhere in the world can apply to create and operate a new gTLD Registry."
ie. re-register the `.io` TLD.

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Taggart :donor:

@draco18s @mwl Yeah I think the question is whether IANA would allow the rereg of a once-national TLD.

8 October at 17:22 | Open on infosec.exchange

Nicolás Alvarez

@draco18s @mttaggart @mwl One of those eligibility requirements is:
"Two-character ASCII strings are not permitted, to avoid conflicting with current and future country codes based on the ISO 3166-1 standard"

8 October at 17:34 | Open on social.treehouse.systems

Peter Brett

@draco18s 2-letter TLDs are *explicitly* excluded from this process. All 2-letter TLDs are reserved for ISO country codes. @mttaggart @mwl

8 October at 17:36 | Open on mastodon.me.uk

Tamandua

@krans @draco18s @mttaggart @mwl when all the sensible US states secede in January they can think of some name that matches IO for the ccTLD.

8 October at 17:45 | Open on hachyderm.io

Draco18s

@krans That's ok, they can go with `.і‌о` instead. (That is, a Cryllic i and o with a zero-width non-joiner in the middle).

Maybe.

The ICANN FAQ says it has to be Latin characters, but "The use of non-Latin characters (such as Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, etc.) would also be allowed in gTLDs" according to Brad White (ICANN's director of global media affairs) in 2015.

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