Wait, so all the '.io' domains are actually registered by people operating in the British Indian Ocean Territory? Seriously, .lan is just a convention. For all

Wait, so all the '.io' domains are actually registered by people operating in the British Indian Ocean Territory? Seriously, .lan is just a convention. For all I care they could come up with any three-letter thingy, as long as there's a mutual understanding that no global DNS will ever resolve it.