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.
What about stopping the bullsh*t of TLD nonsense and doing something like
crates.rust-lang.org? It’s the most sensible solution.As the domain that cargo uses by default, sure, but there’s nothing whatsoever wrong with having crates.io around. If, and I don’t think it’ll happen, .io dies there’s going to be a sunset period and crates.io can become a redirect otherwise why bother.