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Does crates.io have a backup plan?
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It's more bizarre that a single organisation would have such tight control over the Internet. Assigning a tld to each country is a good way to appease each country and give them autonomy over their own portion
But do they actually have autonomy, give that random companies can use
.ioand.ai? Or did the British Indian Ocean Territory and Anguilla approve all such uses of those domains?Canada specifically won't issue .ca without proof of residence in the country, or something close to that.
I think .io is unfortunately administered by a group outside of the country it's related to. Which means they have less control at the moment (something something British colonialism or something)
But yeah imo country code tlds should be limited to businesses / people who reside within the specific country.
We have soo many other tld options that are better choices.
Yep. The governments typically select who administers the tld and then get a lump sum or portion of the revenues.
For
.aiit was 10% of their GDP in 2023 which is insane...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ai
Wow, I definitely should have google that myself before asking, but thank you for explaining and calling out that data point.
I honestly think that shows that it was in fact a bad idea to assign TLDs to countries. Having a country code acronym with a popular tech meaning is essentially just luck of the draw, so they've basically just arbitrarily given a few small countries a valuable resource to sell. I guess that benefits those countries, but I doubt "quasi-random fundraising for small countries" was ever the intent.
They are just iso country codes though, so it is just the luck that some have become so popular.
Some countries are pretty strict that their tlds must be local or at least provide translation in the regional language. The cook islands for instance have prime opportunity with .co.ck but they refuse the to let people take advantage
There are several cctld where the entity buying the domain needs to be a local. EU is an example for that. De requires you to be able appoint a representative within 2 weeks living in Germany.