BITO was uninhabited before it was settled by Europeans. It doesn't have "native people" according to Wikipedia. Unlike .us/au/ca etc. Are those tlds controlled by their native people?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians#2...
PS I think it could a good idea to require some reason when downvoting, otherwise sometimes the context for doing that is completely unclear.
This is completely wrong. BIOT includes these islands where the native people were forcibly removed and the story is terrible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians
It's not like this hasn't been discussed many times on HN before. I own a .io but come on!
Of course "native" can be arbitrarily limited to mean 1000s or 10,000s of years, but even after slavery those people lived there for at least five or six generations. So from the perspective of the people being forcibly removed, getting their pet dogs gassed by the military, it really wouldn't fucking matter.
And the Wikipedia article says they're "native", which you explicitly claimed was not the case.