Well sure, while you're at it let's take .tv away from the Government of Tuvalu. It's just two letters right, nobody else associates it with that island nation

Well sure, while you're at it let's take .tv away from the Government of Tuvalu. It's just two letters right, nobody else associates it with that island nation either. Funnily enough, the same legal reasoning that claims BIOT should not exist (dividing a colony before granting independence) could also be applied to Tuvalu if you wanted to argue that it has no legal right to be a separate state independent of Kiribati. The only difference is, Tuvalu's separation was in accord with the wishes of its indigenous people whereas the Chagos Islanders were shipped elsewhere. But then, nobody bothered asking the indigenous peoples of the USA how they felt about a new nation being founded on their land, and we all seem to tolerate the existence of that somewhat irritating country.