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Does crates.io have a backup plan?
(lemmy.bestiver.se)
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.
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?There are several cctld where the entity buying the domain needs to be a local. EU is an example for that. De requires you to be able appoint a representative within 2 weeks living in Germany.
Yep. The governments typically select who administers the tld and then get a lump sum or portion of the revenues.
For
.ai
it was 10% of their GDP in 2023 which is insane...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ai