Unless IANA decides to vary its (relatively new) policy on this, .io registrations should stop imminently and the zone will have a maximum of 10 years before being deleted.
@russss I was on the Iccan wiki about that last night, turns out theirs a bunch of drama surrounding who was supposed to get the proceeds from .Io and turns out neither government has and it's just some guy???
@jon I could be totally wrong it was very late when I read it.
But it would appear the UK government are like we didn't get any money and the changos are saying the same??
It's acting like a ggTLD already