{"id":262265,"date":"2024-10-11T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T16:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/11\/io-domain-millions-of-websites-could-be-impacted-by-uk-deal-on-chagos-islands\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:53","slug":"io-domain-millions-of-websites-could-be-impacted-by-uk-deal-on-chagos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/11\/io-domain-millions-of-websites-could-be-impacted-by-uk-deal-on-chagos-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"io domain: Millions of websites could be impacted by UK deal on Chagos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The British Indian Ocean Territory or Chagos Islands<\/p>\n

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The UK\u2019s decision to return control of the Chagos Islands<\/a> 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 \u201c.io\u201d.<\/p>\n

Most websites have a domain name \u2013 such as newscientist.com \u2013 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<\/a> that\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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