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io domain: Millions of websites could be impacted by UK deal on Chagos Islands

io domain: Millions of websites could be impacted by UK deal on Chagos Islands

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The British Indian Ocean Territory or Chagos Islands

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The UK’s decision to return control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius will spark a raft of political, military and social changes. But one overlooked aspect is the impending deletion of millions of website addresses ending in “.io”.

Most websites have a domain name – such as newscientist.com – and the last part is called the top-level domain (TLD). Along with .com, you are probably familiar with .org and .net, but there are over 1500 possible TLDs, of which around 300 are two-letter location-specific TLDs that…



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