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The Disappearance of an Internet Domain (every.to)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

at least for the technology-related domains.

It's not a technology related domain though; it's a country's domain that happens to be used for a lot of tech.

With the country dissolving, the domain does too, so it can become available for future countries.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wouldn’t the country and domain dissolving mean it can be reassigned? I don’t understand why after that it would still be considered a country TLD only available for future countries.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because 2 letter tlds are reserved to be issued to countries. Ideally the country's 2 letter country code.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain

All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs.