A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win back control of its ccTLD

Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by duskwuff on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:31PM (#25447341)

.io is a particularly sad story. The residents of the British Indian Ocean Territory (which .io represents) were forced to leave the islands in the 1960s to make room for a naval base. The UK has subsequently established the islands as a marine reserve with the express intent of preventing the original inhabitants, or their descendants, from ever returning to the islands.

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Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by gumby on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:46PM (#25448365)

It's likely horribly polluted at this point (the base there is actually a US one as the UK leases it to the US) so if anyone ever does get to go live there is will be pretty horrible. Quite a reprehensible example of colonialism.

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Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by JJMcJ on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @03:16PM (#25447956)

And the British base is essentially a wrapper around a US Air Force Base.

Main island and site of the USAF base is Diego Garcia, sometimes used to refer to the BIOT as a whole.

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