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Re: .su

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Post by tyingq » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:08 PM UTC

jasoncartwright wrote: post #27

jon889 wrote: post #24

I wonder what happens to .co.uk if the UK dissolves, which seems more possible than it should be after Brexit?

TLDs based on political entities do seem like a bit of a bad idea https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/

Oh, hadn't considered that...

"Should the UK leave the EU with no deal on 1st November 2019, EURid will enforce the following measures as far as .eu domain names that have GB/GI as the registrant’s residence country code are concerned..."

Re: .su

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Post by mike-cardwell » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:09 PM UTC

jon889 wrote: post #24

I wonder what happens to .co.uk if the UK dissolves, which seems more possible than it should be after Brexit?

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 to just charge people twice for a .uk and a .gb.

If Scotland and Northern Ireland leaves, that leaves us as just "Britain". Maybe we create a new ".brit" (or whever the 2 char country code will be), and give time for .uk to disappear again.

Wales wont leave.

[edit] I just saw emmelaich's comment that .gb already exists.

Re: .su

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:09 PM UTC

emmelaich wrote: post #29

jon889 wrote: post #24

I wonder what happens to .co.uk if the UK dissolves, which seems more possible than it should be after Brexit?

Cool fact - .uk isn't the official tld for great britain. The official one is .gb

.uk is also the UK's though. The country code is explicitly reserved by the UK, and it exists in DNS because they grandfathered in some old system's domains.

Re: .su

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:09 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #25

jon889 wrote: post #24

I wonder what happens to .co.uk if the UK dissolves, which seems more possible than it should be after Brexit?

Maybe Ukraine would like the TLD :)

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Re: .su

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:10 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #22

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

.de.su would be THE otaku tld, lol

.moe exists already ;)

Re: .su

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Post by arethuza » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:10 PM UTC

jon889 wrote: post #24

I wonder what happens to .co.uk if the UK dissolves, which seems more possible than it should be after Brexit?

.scot seems to be the main Scottish TLD (e.g. gov.scot) and Wales has .cymru and .wales. Don't think there are ones for England and NI though - maybe .ruk would do?

Re: .su

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Post by skocznymroczny » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:10 PM UTC

jon889 wrote: post #24

I wonder what happens to .co.uk if the UK dissolves, which seems more possible than it should be after Brexit?

Unlikely Brexit ever happens. There's too much at stake here, globalists would never let it happen. If UK detaches from the EU and it becomes successful, the EU project is over.

Re: .su

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Post by Jaruzel » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:11 PM UTC

emmelaich wrote: post #29

jon889 wrote: post #24

I wonder what happens to .co.uk if the UK dissolves, which seems more possible than it should be after Brexit?

Cool fact - .uk isn't the official tld for great britain. The official one is .gb

Cooler fact, GB and UK are different. UK is GB + Northern Ireland.

Scotland already have .Scot and I think Wales have thier own also. Not sure I've seen a .England though.

Re: .su

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Post by JorgeGT » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:13 PM UTC

kzrdude wrote: post #23

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

I hope Stockholm University adopts it

That would free su.se for SUSE Linux, perfect.

Re: .su

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Post by nashashmi » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:15 PM UTC

phaemon wrote: post #13

taesu wrote: post #2

how does a link like this gets to the front page of hn?

You click the "submit" link at the top of the page. Then enter the URL you want to submit. It will then appear in the list you can see under the "new" link. If people find it interesting, they can then upvote it by clicking the little up arrow beside the submitted link. If enough people do that, then it will end up on the front page. And that's all there is to it!

That was quite courteous way to perceive the question and respond. I can do one better:

The link is to a Wikipedia page with a long url. You can submit a title to mask the link. The op posted ".SU" and so .su isn't a link, it's just a title.