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How a UK treaty could spell the end of the .io domain
Does this mean the end of itch.io and greenhouse.io?
Last week, the British government announced that it has agreed to give up ownership of the Chagos Islands, a territory in the Indian Ocean it has controlled since 1814 — relinquishing the .io domain with it. However, entrepreneur Paul Kane, who previously ran the ICB, told GigaOm that the British government collected some of the revenue, which came as a surprise to the Chagossian people. As pointed out by the Every newsletter, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has a process for retiring old country code domains within five years (with the possibility for extensions).
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