What does “.io” mean that is attached to the end of some video games titles and website titles?
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Some domains are related to countries. “domain.uk” is United Kingdom, and “domain.cn” is China, and “domain.tm” is Turkmenistan.
“io” stands for “Indian Ocean”, as in the “British Indian Ocean Territory”. Approximately 1000 islands south of India. Mostly inhabited by military people, and the natives were removed in the 60s and 70s. Not a nice place!
The rights to the “io” domain were bought by rich tech guys to make money in the 90s and they’ve made a lot of money from it. The name sounds kinda geeky because in tech we say IO to mean Input/Output.
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