[brrtbrrt]

Rightly so - don't peruse country-specific TLDs for your app or service vanity BS. This especially concerns .io!

[nocoiner]

I always found it hilarious when .ly was a trendy domain and people were literally building businesses on it. Like, you’re going to put your fate in the hands of Muammar Gaddafi?

[dylan604]

Hasn't he been dead since 2011? So, whose hands are they actually putting that fate in is what you should be concerned since your boogeyman is no more dangerous than the Freddy Krueger.

[tiltowait]

Until this thread, I didn't even realize that .me and .io were ccTLDs. (I should have realized with .me, because I've seen it long enough, but I didn't start noticing .io until after the TLD explosion).

I wouldn't be surprised if many were in the same boat. Registrars should probably warn if buying a ccTLD.

[pests]

Is it any better trusting random third party companies who had enough cash to register their own TLD?

[eatonphil]

I understand the warning in general. But isn't .io, specifically, connected with the British government? And isn't the British government fairly stable/pro-business?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

[jlund-molfese]

For now! But you probably read about the territorial dispute at the end of the article. Totally possible that the British government won't be controlling that domain at some point in the next 10-20 years.

[joemi]

The article you linked to makes it sound like the future of .io is up to debate and not necessarily stable, IMO.

[writeslowly]

I assumed .io was still under the UK government, which is pretty stable as far as central governments go, but it's hard to actually tell whether it's them or some sort of venture capital thing from wikipedia.

[ARandomerDude]

> Rightly so

Why?

[NovemberWhiskey]

I think the premise is something like "you wouldn't incorporate your startup in a West African dictatorship, why would you let the same country govern your domain name?"

[gnulinux]

Because TLD is the property of a sovereign. A sovereign that does not report to the US Government. For US business to use their property as their face to the world (such as pm.me) they need to understand and accept that they're putting their business fate in the hands of a sovereign. Things like OP (X Government takes back .xy TLD) happen, people need to pay attention to power, and geopolitics.

[Pet_Ant]

Because TLDs are supposed to mean things.

[hanniabu]

So one owned by a company is better? No. This is why .eth domains are great. Ethereum solving yet another problem that HN complains about on the daily, but will still claim it has no usecase.

[pmlnr]

You don't understand: most cctlds are in the relevant country's hand, but there are exceptions, like .io.

The ones like .eth or .bit are a bad joke. If you want something that's truly yours, generate a .onion.

[jeroenhd]

What DNS provider supports .eth? Is this one of those Handshake domains?

[riffic]

no one's going to an unresolvable namespace buddy.