From: theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk   
      
   D  wrote:   
   > Of course it will not cease to exist. There is loads of money involved so   
   > rest assured that a government, non-profit or for-profit will be able to   
   > snatch the rights to it, and continue to earn money on nothing.   
      
   Simple solution.  Mauritius declares the islands the Mauritius Indian Ocean   
   Territory with the ISO 3166 country code IO.  They are happy because the .io   
   domain revenue goes to them, and everyone with a .io domain is happy.  The   
   only one unhappy is the shady guy who happens to get the .io revenue today:   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io   
      
   That works for things like the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (ISO code   
   TF, TLD .tf), permanent population 0.   
      
   Theo   
      
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