The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
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It’s strange to me that they wouldn’t simply reassign control of it to another… erm, what’s the word?, at least for the technology-related domains.
23 0 Replyat least for the technology-related domains.
It's not a technology related domain though; it's a country's domain that happens to be used for a lot of tech.
With the country dissolving, the domain does too, so it can become available for future countries.
11 0 ReplyWouldn’t the country and domain dissolving mean it can be reassigned? I don’t understand why after that it would still be considered a country TLD only available for future countries.
5 0 ReplyBecause 2 letter tlds are reserved to be issued to countries. Ideally the country's 2 letter country code.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain
All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.
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I was wondering the same. It's a very popular TLD, so you'd think they would grandfather it in as a generic (non-country) TLD like .net or whatever.
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