> contrived: having an unnatural or false appearance or quality
In this case, ICANN's allocation of TLD using country codes generates these ridiculous scenarios where arbitrary countries with "lucky" TLD like .ai and .tv can just grift on fees.
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.IO is the best! :-D
Zero permanent population : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory
I guess that comes with nation states operating name servers for a zone they purchased.
Namecoin makes sense. From my reading I understand you can buy dot-bit domains.