@mttaggart @mwl The two edged sword of using a regional tld as a friendly name, rather than a non geographic tld. Everyone should be aware there are always disadvantages with this.

The obvious solution would be to allow the Chagosians to take on the effort of maintaining it, and then change the description of .io to 'input output tld'. That way pretty much everyone is happy.

Admittedly at one stage I did have a top level .ly domain, there were a lot of issues for many people but I got lucky & it worked whilst I had it. Then they formalised the registrar, prices shot up, and I decided I didn't need the domain that badly.