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This whole thing kinda makes me nervous for using a .in and not being from India.
Is India in danger of being made an ex-country like Yugoslavia?
More worried about them clamping down on non Indian people using it.
What happens when a ccTLD is retired? Exploring the potential risks of .io
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Re: What happens when a ccTLD is retired? Exploring the potential risks of .io
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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.
I doubt that .io could become a gTLD, given the established practice of using ISO 3166 alpha-2 codes for country-specific domain names. A .io gTLD would be dependent on obtaining some sort of long-term reservation for IO in ISO 3166 and perhaps even in existing standards that extend it, and this is unlikely to be granted given how tight the alpha-2 encoding space is already.
But it's run governed by ICANN, so they might bend your way if you got the $$$, and millions of it.