The possible annoyance with eternal country-code TLDs would be the dissolution o...

toast0 · 2026-04-03T05:29:18 1775194158

Before exhaustion, you're likely to have new countries where they have to have suboptimal two letter codes, because a dissolved country is squating on it.

razakel · 2026-04-03T08:23:11 1775204591

An interesting one is .uk, because the UK's country code is actually GB (the ccTLD is delegated, but unused).

And that's before we get into the really weird not-a-proper-country ones like .im or .pn.

mghackerlady · 2026-04-04T16:17:10 1775319430

if we run out of 2 letter TLDs, move to 3 letter ones. it really wouldn't be that hard. Also, that's assuming our current system stays in place

SAI_Peregrinus · 2026-04-05T21:41:11 1775425271

The country code TLDs are ISO country codes. Nothing technically requires that to continue, but if ISO re-uses a country code & ICANN doesn't, it'll get somewhat confusing.

mghackerlady · 2026-04-06T13:36:46 1775482606

If anyone would avoid reusing codes, it's the ISO. They love legacy compliance and compatibility (which is why I have tremendous respect for them when I'm designing software since they've certainly thought about something more than I have)