All of these stories are really interesting, and I highly recommend all of them, but this one stuck out to me. .io
is an extremely popular domain name, and while I had heard about the controversy surrounding the use of the .ly
TLD, there wasn’t any similar outrage abou the rise of .io
. Many of the interesting TLDs are tied to countries, and .io
is tied to the British Indian Ocean Territories, a collection of islands that were straight up stolen from the people who lived there so Great Britain and the United States could use them for a military base.