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OrganicMSG | 7 years ago

Don't use *.io anyway. The domains are being sold under a very morally dubious arrangement, given the UK kicked all the people off the island of Chagos and gave the domain registration to a private entity.

https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...

The UK government's view of the Chagossians at the time they gave the island to the USA for a military base was apalling:

“Unfortunately along with the birds go some few Tarzans or Man Fridays whose origins are obscure and who are hopefully being wished on to Mauritius.”

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