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Re: .su

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Post by m-i-l »

Symbiote wrote: post #68
mike-cardwell wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Scotland leaves, I imagine we'll switch from "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" to "The United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland", thus keeping the "uk". ".scot" already exists. If Northern Ireland leaves, I guess the UK no longer exists, and we switch to ".gb". Could clone .uk at .gb for a while (ten years?) and give people time to switch, but seems more likely Nominet would prefer t…

The three kingdoms which are united are the Kingdom of England, Scotland and Ireland, the first two by the Acts of Union 1707 [1], and Ireland added by the Acts of Union 1800 [2]. Wales is part of the Kingdom of England, under the "Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542" [3]. Without Scotland, it becomes the United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland, leaving the Kingdom of Scotland. Scotland would be assigned an ISO 3…

According to wikipedia [0] and UK government sources [1] there are 4 countries in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: England, Scotland, Wales (together forming Great Britain) and Northern Ireland. If Scotland and Northern Ireland left the UK, it is conceivable therefore that the United Kingdom would continue to exist but as the United Kingdom of England and Wales.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdo... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom

[1] https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20080909013512/ht...

Re: .su

#122

Post by johnmulaney »

vasili111 wrote: post #109
_wldu wrote: post #49

I hope we keep it. It matches the maps I have from 7th grade.

I hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union.

There are many things that remind people of bad things. That's not an appropriate reason to remove them.

Re: .su

#123

Post by djsumdog »

Once upon a time I thought it would be funny to buy the .su domain for my site, and on April Fools, have a link to it and a script that output all my posts using the Cyrillic alphabet. I doubt I'll ever get around to it.

Re: .su

#124

Post by osullivj »

Symbiote wrote: post #68
mike-cardwell wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Scotland leaves, I imagine we'll switch from "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" to "The United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland", thus keeping the "uk". ".scot" already exists. If Northern Ireland leaves, I guess the UK no longer exists, and we switch to ".gb". Could clone .uk at .gb for a while (ten years?) and give people time to switch, but seems more likely Nominet would prefer t…

The three kingdoms which are united are the Kingdom of England, Scotland and Ireland, the first two by the Acts of Union 1707 [1], and Ireland added by the Acts of Union 1800 [2]. Wales is part of the Kingdom of England, under the "Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542" [3]. Without Scotland, it becomes the United Kingdom of England and Northern Ireland, leaving the Kingdom of Scotland. Scotland would be assigned an ISO 3…

The 1707 Union created the Kingdom of Great Britain. 1801 created United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The creation of the Irish Free State in 1922 gave us the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. So if Scotland leaves, the Kingdom of Great Britain ceases to exist. "Britain" ceases to exists as a political/national state. IMHO any reconfigured UK after that is an absurdity.

Re: .su

#125

Post by sumobob »

silisili wrote: post #19
octosphere wrote: post #17

Anyone know of English words that we can use to make a 'domain hack'[0] out of this? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack

Not many - http://words.lx.lc/endswith/su

What a cool site, any documentation on other operators?

Re: .su

#126

Post by avaika »

myndpage wrote: post #71
avaika wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did you find a price like that? I own one and I pay like 3$ a year. However ID indeed is required.

I pay 30$ a year. Where did you get 3$ a year exactly?!

Well. Even reg.ru / nic.ru (budget unfriendly Russian registrars) charge less than 10$ per year.

Personally I use Naunet (yet another NIC) re-seller (former nn.gdmd.ru which was acquired by ru.gogolev.net).

Re: .su

#127

Post by vasili111 »

johnmulaney wrote: post #122
vasili111 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union.

There are many things that remind people of bad things. That's not an appropriate reason to remove them.

Demonstrating symbol of ex "country" in which there was dictatorship, occupation, annexation and genocide is act of glorification/act of paying respect of/to that "country" and its behavior.

Re: .su

#128

Post by gherkinnn »

paulpauper wrote: post #42

I wonder what the most exclusive tld is . probably .gov or .mil

.aq perhaps?

“AQ domain names are available to government organisations who are signatories to the Antarctic Treaty and to other registrants who have a physical presence in Antarctica.“

Re: .su

#129

Post by egorfine »

nobodyshere wrote: post #116
vasili111 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union.

Which one was that?

I believe he is speaking of Ukraine. It is trendy today to say things like that in Ukraine.
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