What happens when a ccTLD is retired? Exploring the potential risks of .io

Let me get this straight... people whose businesses rely on the existence of the .io TLD are donating to a campaign group that wants the TLD's raison d'être to be abolished? Smart.

I mean, consider a hypothetical. Let's say there's a whole swathe of businesses that have no connection to the American South, but for whatever hipster reasons occurred briefly in their subculture, all have brand logos that feature the confederate flag. At some point, someone points out that this flag represents the fight to defend slavery and lots of African-Americans and their supporters are still very upset that justice has not been done. Do the hipster business owners say to themselves: oh dear, I don't like this ugly historical incident that is indicated by a significant part of our branding, and neither do my customers more to that matter, so I'd better stop using that flag and rebrand to something else? Or do they say, actually I think the flag is really pretty and it makes my organisation look modern and cool, so how about I assuage my guilt by donating to a support group that just happens to be also campaigning for the abolition of that flag that I want to continue to use?

If you don't think the BIOT should exist, don't stake your business on its continuing existence. And good luck invading Diego Garcia, it's much more heavily defended than the Falklands were.

I doubt .io will disappear. .su is still running decades after the fall of the USSR.

I think the .su TLD shows what happens, i.e. not much

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su

Aye, any attempt at retirement would quickly result in a new '.io' gTLD replacing the '.io' ccTLD. The more reasonable concern is not that the ccTLD is retired, but that registration rules and/or prices are changed.

This article strikes as blog spam to push this companies domain migration service.