Granted no one ever appears to use .io for it's original purpose as the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory...
ccTLD management is delegated to a company in that nation usually. Unfortunately not all of them are equally well managed - I wouldn't consider gTLDs _exactly_ comparable to ccTLDs in this regard. ccTLDs get to differ in pretty key ways from gTLDs, including deciding their own dispute resolution processes (gTLDs all use the UDRP).
In this case technically they did run from a country-level equivalent, .io is a ccTLD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
Granted no one ever appears to use .io for it's original purpose as the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory...
ccTLD management is delegated to a company in that nation usually. Unfortunately not all of them are equally well managed - I wouldn't consider gTLDs _exactly_ comparable to ccTLDs in this regard. ccTLDs get to differ in pretty key ways from gTLDs, including deciding their own dispute resolution processes (gTLDs all use the UDRP).