While .tv
brings in millions of dollars each year for the tiny South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, and .me
benefits Montenegro, the people of the British Indian Ocean Territory, or the Chagos Islands, have no such luck. Indeed, profits from the sale of each .io
domain flow to the very force that expelled the Chagossian or Ilois people from their equatorial land just a generation or two ago: the British government.
The .io TLD is registered to the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean but it is controlled by the UK
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