It's possible that the .io cctld is going to go away [0]. Does crates.io have a backup plan at all? Does anyone know what problems it would end up causing?

I imagine the package registry having to move domains is going to cause a ton of problems.

Frankly, it's concerning to me that so much of the Rust ecosystem has chosen to standardize on shaky ccTLDs. The Indian Ocean Territory (.io) is a small island territory whose only inhabitants are a single military base, it is crazy to use that domain for something important. Serbia (.rs) is more stable, but they could still cut off access for non-Serbians if they wanted to.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io#Phasing_Out

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[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 8 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

Obviously this isn't specific to Rust, but frankly it's bizarre to me that ICANN chose to tie top-level domains to country codes in the first place. Languages might have made sense, but a major feature of the internet is that it's less beholden to political boundaries than most of the physical world is.

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 9 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

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

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

But do they actually have autonomy, give that random companies can use .io and .ai? Or did the British Indian Ocean Territory and Anguilla approve all such uses of those domains?

[–] Strykker@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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