I'll politely point out that your response is flawed and incorrect. As self-governing British territories, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, Bermuda etc. all hav

I'll politely point out that your response is flawed and incorrect. As self-governing British territories, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, Bermuda etc. all have ccTLDs pertaining to their ISO 3166-1 designations. Because of that, it isn't the British government that creates the ccTLD. There is no basis to say that BIOT would not have the .io ccTLD if its domestic population was self-governing.