diablo2.io?

I'm curious. diablo2 is obvious, but where did the [.io] come from? Did you create that extension anew, and why [.io]?

Don't know where it comes from in this context but interestingly enough:

The top level domain belongs to the "British Indian Ocean Territory" which was controlled by the UK. But this october the UK government announce that "it would hand over sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius" so following ICANN rules the TLD should be "phased out" sometime in the next few years.

Edit: Wikipedia on this issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io#Phasing_Out

You're right, that is interesting ... and I have no Idea what it means, LOL. Another one of those questions that have no easy answer, I guess.

Edit:
I see it now. [.io] is the country code for the British Indian Ocean Territory. But I'm still curious about why it was chosen.

Google AI shows:
the British Indian Ocean Territory
[. io] is a country-code top-level domain name (ccTLD) for the Chagos Archipelago, assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). However, it has become a generic domain and is popular in the tech world since

Io or I/O means input/output in computer science. Each of them serves a specific purpose.