[elicash]

> The IANA may fudge its own rules and allow .io to continue to exist.

Important sentence (in second-to-last paragraph) that shouldn't get overlooked. Nobody has yet said it will be wound down. But this is an interesting piece and worth reading, regardless.

[madars]

Exactly. You can still register new domains under .su, even though the evil empire hasn't existed since well before the web became popular, and both Russia and formerly occupied and now independent nations have their own TLDs now.