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From: Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Will The =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9C=2Eio=E2=80=9D?= Domain Cease To Exist?
Date: 10 Oct 2024 15:21:33 +0100 (BST)
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
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D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
> Of course it will not cease to exist. There is loads of money involved so 
> rest assured that a government, non-profit or for-profit will be able to 
> snatch the rights to it, and continue to earn money on nothing.

Simple solution.  Mauritius declares the islands the Mauritius Indian Ocean
Territory with the ISO 3166 country code IO.  They are happy because the .io
domain revenue goes to them, and everyone with a .io domain is happy.  The
only one unhappy is the shady guy who happens to get the .io revenue today:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

That works for things like the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (ISO code
TF, TLD .tf), permanent population 0.

Theo