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Re:Question mark hangs over trendy tech startup domains by mrob on Monday June 03, 2019 @06:31AM (#20081830)
If they get their island back, why don't the Native Americans get their whole countries back too?
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Re:Question mark hangs over trendy tech startup domains by blibble on Monday June 03, 2019 @07:20AM (#20082044)
it was also never their island, they lived there as employees only. their ancestors were brought to the uninhabited island by the French

it would be like claiming an oil rig or country estate as your family's property because you've had several generations of drillers/domestic staff employed by the owners

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Re:Question mark hangs over trendy tech startup domains by bloak on Monday June 03, 2019 @08:19AM (#20082359)
No, it's not like that at all, because an oil rig counts as a vessel, whereas an island is land.
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Re:Question mark hangs over trendy tech startup domains by zaroth on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:05AM (#20082665)
It’s a bit different when the territory is settled by non-indigenous people for a few generations, versus occupied, or just a few structures built and no one really lives there at all.
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