Future of the .io domain??

[HeBeGB]

Hi All!

The British government announced on October 3 that it is releasing sovereignty of its territory in the Indian Ocean and turning it over to the island country of Mauritius. Once the treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will formally cease to exist and the International Standard for Organization (ISO) is supposed to remove country code “IO” from its specification. This in turn should trigger the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to deprecate the “.io” domain, refuse new registrations with a “.io” domain, and begin the process of retiring existing ones.

…Like for example “OpenThings.io” which is pretty important!

Now, it is possible that “.io” is popular enough that the IANA may make it a non-country Top Level Domain (TLD) like “.edu” and nothing will change.

I’m just raising awareness and starting the conversation for contingency planning.

I love OpenSprinkler (and OpenGarage) so much; I don’t want to lose any functionality!

[Ray]

Thanks for pointing it out. Yes we are aware of this. The plan is to gradually migrate those back to opensprinkler.com, which is already the main store front of everything we sell currently. At some point the cloud server at cloud.openthings.io will be migrated to a different domain name and we are working on it.

[HeBeGB]

Awesome, thanks Ray!
You’re always 2 steps ahead 🙂

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