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      17 hours ago

      Yep. This is such a weird fear monger topic.

      If the country that owns IO ceases to exist then IANA will just make it an ICANN generic TLD. Such a widely used TLD won’t be allowed to disappear. The rules are all made up anyway.

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        Two letter TLDs are reserved for countries. No gTLDs use a two letter TLD.

        I guess in theory you could make a new country called “Input Output”, get ISO3166 to be updated to specify “IO” as your country’s two letter abbreviation, then request the IO TLD from IANA.

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          Two letter TLDs are reserved for countries. No gTLDs use a two letter TLD.

          According to the rules set by the org that controls the fate of IO. They can easily change the rules if they wanted. There is a vested interest in not losing IO, and nothing but their own rule to stop them. Who’s to tell them they can’t do whatever they want in this matter?