[dmart]

I fully expect that an exception will be made to effectively treat it as a tech-related gTLD, which is how it has been used in practice all along anyway.

If ICANN really chooses to break every GitHub Pages, crates.io, gcr.io, quay.io, etc. URL just to blindly follow a policy, then they will have proven themselves an incompetent arbiter of the domain name system. This feels so unlikely that I'm not worried about it all.

[j4nek]

> URL just to blindly follow a policy, then they will have proven themselves an incompetent arbiter of the domain name system.

Of course I can understand if someone finds the situation stupid. However, ICANN is clear with its rules and every entrepreneur has to take possible (political) uncertainties into account when choosing a .tld, which many have simply not done. You could also accuse them of "incompetence".

When choosing a domain for .de, I explicitly decided against a podcast bro tld like .io / .ai etc. because of these reasons.

[throw49sjwo1]

They shouldn't have bought the domains, the rules were clear. What if the rules say that somebody else is supposed to get the IO domain?

[Gooblebrai]

Many people forget that laws, as long are not the laws of physics, are man-made. And as such, they can be changed at will to fit whatever scenario is convenient.

[throw49sjwo1]

Indeed, but what's convenient for a bunch of tech bros might not be convenient for the world order.

[hulitu]

The rules are not for us. Except when they serve us. /s

[dave4420]

Don’t worry, there’ll be a transition period for people to migrate to other domains.

[binarymax]

Maybe that's fine for Microsoft/Github. Where are the bootstrapped startups supposed to go?

[dave4420]

Do their bazillions in funding not cover registering a new domain name?

[ipaddr]

.info just two extra letters

[hulitu]

> Where are the bootstrapped startups supposed to go?

.crypto ? .ai ? That't where the hype is. /s