Nov 28: TLDs

An interesting story here on the shady geopolitics of top level internet domains (TLDs)

A quote from the article:

"While .tv brings in millions of dollars each year for the tiny South Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, and .me benefits Montenegro, the people of the British Indian Ocean Territory, or the Chagos Islands, have no such luck. Indeed, profits from the sale of each .io domain flow to the very force that expelled the Chagossian or Ilois people from their equatorial land just a generation or two ago: the British government."

Thanks to Kevin Cooper for the link to the original document. Would be interesting to find out what the current state of play is here.

Many of us definitely type in web addresses every day...

Image: Alan Parkinson, shared under CC license