British Indian Ocean Territory or Chagos Islands
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Britain’s decision to return control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius will trigger a number of political, military and social changes. However, one overlooked aspect is the impending removal of millions of website addresses ending in “.io”.
Most websites have a domain name, such as newscientist.com, with the last part called the top-level domain (TLD). Along with .com, you’re probably familiar with .org and .net, but there are over 1500 possible TLDs, about 300 of which are two-letter location-specific TLDs.
