Paul Barker su Computerworld parla di un risvolto inaspettato della cessione delle isole Chagos.

Le isole Chagos sono state recentemente cedute dal Regno Unito alle Mauritius. Questo accordo potrebbe mettere a rischio i domini di primo livello «.io». Molto in voga negli anni Dieci, i domini .io registrati sono più di 1,6 milioni.

The domain name regulatory environment works as follows: the ISO 3166 standard is used to define a nation or region’s ccTLD and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) maintains that standard. Also involved is the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority or IANA, a standards organization that oversees global IP addresses and is an operating unit of ICANN.

In the case of the .io domain, digital strategist Gareth Edwards wrote in a social media post, “IANA bases TLDs off ISO 3166 country codes. If a code stops existing, in theory, they follow suit and kill the TLD. Officially this was British Indian Ocean Territory. That is the .io domain everyone loves so much.”