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That's a horrible thing the British government have done
I'm not sure that's a good reason not to use the domain though, if we didn't use anything that horrible people had a hand in making we wouldn't be talking here right now
They're two separate(ish) issues.
But it's still a bad idea to use national TLDs for stuff that has nothing to do with that nation.
Granted, is ICANN wasn't just a money-grabbing machine with no forward thinking they wouldn't give nations clearly "generally desirable" gTLDs, but since they did already that doesn't mean they should be misused.
Perhaps I just don't see why countries need their own extensions anyway (other than ones reserved for government websites to avoid scams, but at the point of being available for public use that kinda falls down)
Local companies may have similar names to others that exist overseas.
To require them to be in a globally common non-regionalised pool of domain names is more likely to increase scam risks.
Should the various regional companies of the Vodafone brand be forced to have all their world wide customers sign in to a global parent organisation Vodafone.com? Is it not better for the regionally specific customer portal be vodafone.com.au and vodafone.co.uk?
Yeah that makes sense I suppose.
I still think for the vast majority of io websites I've seen they probably wouldn't clash with any companies that need portals in those regions
There's also a large amount of first come first served with domains regardless of what extension they're using though, if there's no legislation around who can use what extension I'm still not convinced it's that big a deal