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@shawnhooper You know some company is going to buy the TLD, double the renewal rates, and laugh all the way to the beach. <sighs>

@WTL @shawnhooper except I don’t think you can buy a 2 letter TLD

@mattrose @shawnhooper 🤷🏻 Either way this shouldn't be a real problem for at least a decade or so.

@WTL @shawnhooper If the article is right, the domain cannot be reopened - but I guess we'll see.

@WTL @shawnhooper I thought gTLDs had to be three characters or more to prevent exactly this sort of thing?

@alex @shawnhooper This may be the case, now that you mention it - sounds oddly familiar. 👍🏻

@shawnhooper I heard rumours about the stability of the .io domain 3-4 years ago and luckily started to pivot my private domain to .dev.

Now it's finally time to find all the places where I still use the old domain. But I really wonder if ICANN will step in here, as so many high-value domains would be affected. 👀

@stefanzweifel @shawnhooper I doubt it goes away. USSR went away 33 years ago and the .su domains still resolve. Someone will buy it.

@shawnhooper That's wild. I don't have an io domain but holy cow this is big.