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| Introduced | 16 September 1997 |
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| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Active |
| Registry | Internet Computer Bureau Ltd |
| Intended use | Entities connected with the British Indian Ocean Territory |
| Actual use | Popular with startup companies, browser games |
| Registration restrictions | None for 2nd level registrations; 3rd level registrant must be resident of British Indian Ocean Territory |
| Structure | Registrations are taken directly at the second level or at third level beneath various 2nd-level labels |
| Documents | Terms & Conditions; Rules |
| Dispute policies | Dispute Resolution Policy |
| DNSSEC | yes |
| Registry website | NIC.io |
The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .io is nominally assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory.[1] The domain is managed by Internet Computer Bureau Ltd, a domain name registry, with registrar services provided by Name.com.[2]
Google's ad targeting treats .io as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) because "users and website owners frequently see [the domain] as being more generic than country-targeted."[3]
- ^ IDN Code Points Policy for the .IO Top Level Domain (PDF), NIC.IO, archived from the original (PDF) on 18 December 2005, retrieved 11 December 2005
- ^ "NIC.IO - The Official .IO Domain Registry and Network Information Centre". nic.io. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
- ^ "Managing multi-regional and multilingual sites". Archived from the original on 5 October 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
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