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> The only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors So wait, all .io domains map to a US/UK military base in the Indian Oce

• chrischen 6y ago
  Given that they didn’t give a f*ck about the natives (they kicked off all the native population in the 60s and 70s), probably the same amount of care.
• geocrasher 6y ago
  It doesn't "map" anywhere. It's just a domain name. DNS happens like it happens for any other domain.
• justusthane 6y ago
  In day-to-day usage, it doesn't, at all. Who owns a domain doesn't have anything to do with where the traffic flows. If I owned buttplug.io (which I don't, unfortunately), and someone sent traffic to me (by visiting the website), DNS would look up and return the IP address of my server, and that's where the traffic would go. In theory, since the owner of the TLD controls the root DNS servers, I guess they could hijack the DNS to send the traffic to their server instead. We would know if that happened though.
  • vorpalhex 6y ago
    Actually tlds may have restrictions and can enforce them. This isn't very common, and most of the past issues with IO has been their very slow time processing registration requests as opposed to content takedowns, but some tlds require ssl and others do restrict adult content. Some restrict things to a given topic (which they get to be the judge of) and others require legal hoops to register such as proving you're a non-profit. With the explosion of tlds and those tlds being privately owned, there's a good chance we'll see more of these problems in the future though right now it just seems like the owning orgs are just looking for easy money.