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

Post by DeathArrow » Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 9:45 AM UTC

jandrese wrote: post #18

disiplus wrote: post #13

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the country should manage its own domain. every country has it own set of rules, and for me as a citizen of country i would not want it to be managed by another country where the thing im doing might be illegal but in my own is not. i agree there are not many reasons to not being able to buy a domain from another country but as is with telephone numbers in alot of countries u have to have some residence in a country…

So much for the idea of the Internet breaking down political boundaries. I know it's been dead for a long time now, but there was a thought in the early days that it didn't matter where you where or who you are on the Internet, everybody has the same access and opportunities.

Post by DeathArrow » Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 9:49 AM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #48

mmm_grayons wrote: post #12

Domains really shouldn't be tied to country of origin. Conceptually, it doesn't make sense to restrict DNS based on geopolitical boundaries. If a foreign company wants to register a .us domain, for instance, nothing should stop it.

If whitehouse.gov let their registration lapse... watch out.

Post by fanf2 » Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 3:07 PM UTC

tialaramex wrote: post #63

echelon wrote: post #55

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https://icannwiki.org/.rich There are only 99 registered domains, a few of which are probably owned by the registry itself. At $2,500/yr/domain, they're not exactly making bank. The cost to maintain all of this probably eats into the profit a bit.

I'd be surprised if it even pays for itself. Running a gTLD is not intended to be cheap. $1M pa is the ballpark I've seen quoted. Lots of people had the idea that they'd get a million customers and so even at one dollar per customer they couldn't help but make money, the reality in a lot of cases was few customers and no route out. A handful of general purpose gTLDs work, there's one quite popular in Russia for examp…

Post by jon_elbrook » Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 5:34 PM UTC

DeathArrow wrote: post #81

hanoz wrote: post #53

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Bafflingly absurd to suggest a permanent seat at the council could be forfeit over such a matter. These seats are occupied by the victors of the last world war, and will continue to be so until the results of the next one.

While that might be true for US, UK and Russia, I fail to see how China and France won WW2.

Post by tialaramex » Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 9:47 PM UTC

fanf2 wrote: post #95

tialaramex wrote: post #63

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I'd be surprised if it even pays for itself. Running a gTLD is not intended to be cheap. $1M pa is the ballpark I've seen quoted. Lots of people had the idea that they'd get a million customers and so even at one dollar per customer they couldn't help but make money, the reality in a lot of cases was few customers and no route out. A handful of general purpose gTLDs work, there's one quite popular in Russia for examp…

> the reality in a lot of cases was few customers and no route out. I am keeping an eye on decommissioned TLDs - https://twitter.com/fanf/status/1245512707459158020?s=21 Most of them are closed .brand TLDs owned by companies whose business isn’t DNS. The struggling open TLDs seem to be traded and collected by big registries that can get economies of scale, rather than closed, so there is a limited way out. I have see…