Apparently the UK government does not get any income from .io sales: Wikipedia - .io - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io > I

Apparently the UK government does not get any income from .io sales: Wikipedia - .io - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io > In 2014, Kane claimed that "profits are distributed to the authorities for them to operate services as they see fit" and that "Each of the overseas territories has an account and the funds are deposited there because obviously the territories have expenses that they incur and it’s offsetting that." However the UK government has repeatedly stated that this is untrue: “There is no agreement between the UK Government and ICB regarding the administration of the .io domain” and "the Government receives no revenues from the sales or administration of this domain." So, you aren't funding the UK government, just a 'British entrepreneur' who bought the rights to multiple TLDs... I'm not sure that's better, but it's different.