this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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It'll be fun when Tuvalu decides to take back .tv
1/12th of their national income is from .tv so they'll have sunk before that happens...
But isn’t that day also nearing at a drastic rate? I feel like they’ve been on the brink to Atlantis for a while now.
AFAIK they won't pass this decade, yes
Damn. How does that work out logistically speaking?
Climate refugees will have to find new homes. I would imagine New Zealand and Tahiti would absorb the couple-thousand people as they are the closest larger Pacific Island nations. Australia is less friendly to immigrants.
It's a major human rights crisis that no one really talks about.
At least Montenegro profits from .me
The Chagos Islanders get nothing from .io which is controlled by their oppressive colonizers.
It looks like the TLD was sold off to a private business by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority in 1997, with those rights subsequently being sold on to other corporations.
The British government have issued an FOI response advising that they recieve no funds from .io domain registrations. The Chagos Islanders still don't benefit, but it looks like that'd need to be squared with a hedge fund rather than a government.
...It is weird that territorial domains can be auctioned off in the first place though.
I'd forgotten that detail. IANA couldn't have sold it to a British businessman without the permission of the Brits as they ruled over the territory.
Chagos Islanders want it but I doubt they will ever get it.
Today I learn
There is nothing for them to take back, they have company that manages .me... so it's theirs to selm to you.
I believe they sold the rights to some US company who is now managing the tld.
They specifically decided to profit off the fact that's it's an attractive tld, unlike tld like .ly and .ml where the country never intended for their tld to get a wide use.