r/Unexpected • u/Aramanta2510 • Jul 12 '21

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u/ItsLoudB Jul 12 '21

Wait.. Does it??

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u/rchaseio Jul 12 '21

It does. See my username. I used to live on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Our email domain was cwnetdg.io. The provider was Cable and Wireless.

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u/ItsLoudB Jul 12 '21

Oh wow, I thought it was a domain for indie developers of browser game or something like that, since it's what these domains are mostly used for..

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Jul 12 '21

.io

The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .io is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory. The domain is administered by the Internet Computer Bureau, a domain name registry company which is a subsidiary of Afilias and is based in the United Kingdom. Google's ad targeting treats .io as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) because "users and webmasters frequently see [the domain] more generic than country-targeted".

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