The «British Indian Ocean Territory», ISO-3166 Code «IO», will soon cease to exist.
That might sound boring and unimportant at first. But it will also remove the legal basis of the .io «ccTLD» (Country-Code Top-Level Domain), attractive to many computerphiles, as it sounds like I/O.
We don't know what will happen exactly, but you might want to consider a backup plan, just in case.
https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain
Marcel Waldvogel /
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2024-10-08 18:10:24
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