Will the .io ccTLD be deleted from the root by 2050?
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The UK surrendering the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has introduced the possibility that the .io ccTLD will be deleted.
https://domainincite.com/30406-five-times-icann-deleted-a-cctld-and-what-it-means-for-io
ICANN's policy appears to make this inevitable if - as also seems likely - Mauritius changes or removes Chagos's ISO3166 code. If it's changed, the registry have at most ten years to retire the domain
https://www.iana.org/help/cctld-retirement
However, no ccTLD that's been widely used has ever been deleted. Previous deletions were of TLDs sparsely used if used at all. .su, for the Soviet Union, is still used 33 years after that ceased to exist.
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