Gregory's Serverfrom the network that brought you:
'my mastodon server domain got shut down by the taliban'
we now have:
'what happens to my misskey server because a country stopped existing'
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 @picard yeah having your identity tied to a domain leads to very funny and interesting situations  @laurenshof oh god this is bad... what happens to people who have been paying for these? are they just taken away? @laurenshof wow, that should actually be a banger and much bigger news, there's a good lot of history tied to Chagos Islands besides that. And a handover wasn't the reason I expected, rather than tying it into another overseas possession.  @laurenshof I'd imagine ICANN would avoid retiring .io, like the article mentioned - money talks. But, are companies like GitHub going to see this as a liability and preempt any official determination from ICANN by migrating off.io early? And if a number of big companies decide they're not risking sticking around on .io - will that ultimately influence ICANN to decide retiring .io is feasible after all. Though .yu seems like precedent to give .io to ~Mauritania~ Mauritius.  @laurenshof Oops, lol! My geography skills are not up to snuff. Though, I'm sure Mauritania would love to have .io @laurenshof A while ago, I started hosting my blog over Tor, because I didn't have a web host and it ran off a laptop with a broken screen. Never thought that would be more reliable than an entire country's TLD |
@laurenshof@indieweb.social off topic but I still think about that time the FBI "accidentally" raided kolektiva