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Eliot Lash

@alienmelon @mttaggart Yeah it's mentioned in the article in the OP.

I also found out something else interesting, back in 2021 the Chagos Islanders already filed a complaint with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development "seeking restitution and return of .IO" and "due royalties and payments" from their current manager, an Irish company called Afilias Ltd. So it seems they do want the ccTLD.

You can read more about this on their lawyer's blog:
jlevy.co/2021/07/28/oecd-compl

8 October at 17:59 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.coop
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Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)

@Eliot_L @mttaggart thanks for this. this is really interesting. i wonder why it took off so much in tech. part of me thinks there must be a better reason than the link to cryptocurrency but then again (the way it sounds from reading that) the lack of legal oversight makes sense too (tho admittedly im jumping to conclusions too after reading just this one thing)

8 October at 18:13 | Open on mastodon.social
Eliot Lash

@alienmelon @mttaggart I think it's mostly a factor of it getting popular as an alternative TLD to .com/.net prior to the explosion of alternative gTLDs in the mid-2010s. It sounds kind of computer-y so I think that made it popular for stuff like SaaS. As others have pointed out in this thread I think .ly got popular for similar reasons and was similarly problematic.

8 October at 18:31 | Open on social.coop
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