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mike-cardwell wrote: post #32
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 t…

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Re: .su

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Post by mehrdadn »

Jaruzel wrote: post #38
emmelaich wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

.en would seem apt.

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Post by skissane »

wildylion wrote: post #16

For me .su is a kind of historical curiousity. Not sure if I like it or not, or if it should be phased out, but there are a bunch of Soviet Union related sites in there too and sometimes these are pretty amusing (how about a site of the CPSU?) Also there's sudo.su :) Source: am Russian.

> (how about a site of the CPSU?)

You are talking about http://kpss.su ?

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Post by mc32 »

paulpauper wrote: post #42

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

Probably one of the corporate ones like .xyz, .amazon, .bananarepublic, etc.

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

skocznymroczny wrote: post #37
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.

There's big forces at play that do want it to happen though; financial, in that there's a lot of people that want UK businesses and real estate to drop in value so they can buy it up for cheap, and political, political forces who have an interest in destabilizing Europe (and the world).

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Post by johannes1234321 »

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?

Depends on the identity goin forward. If England+Wales stick to the name for some reason they will continue using it, and Scots and NI get new ones. (Well, later not if they merge with Republic of Ireland) If they form a new country and rename to "England" (poor Welsh) or "South Britain" they likely will be legal successor of treaties and stuff (like Russia being legal successor of USSR) and can use .UK for the time being.

One effect can be seen on .eu: After Brexit UK entities aren't eligible for .eu domains anymore and depending on the outcome on Oct 31st might lose it immediately (while there are statements for a grace period even on Brexit without further agreement ... but no deal leads to no legal requirement)

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Post by skissane »

paulpauper wrote: post #42

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

.int is more exclusive.

.gov is restricted to US government, but consider the immense sprawl that is the US federal government, and then consider that US state and US local governments are allowed in the club too, and it doesn't look so exclusive any more

.mil is restricted to the US military, but that is a gargantuan entity with countless agencies and bases and divisions and whatnot all of whom seem to want to have publicly accessible websites (even for stuff that is obviously only useful for people actually in the US military), and .mil turns out to be a dime a dozen too

.int – under current rules, you need to be an international organization established by international treaty, or else you need observer status with the UN General Assembly. Numerically that is smaller than either of the above two categories. (It also has some random stuff that doesn't belong under current rules, like the YMCA – which wasn't established by treaty, and doesn't have UN General Assembly observer status – but those are grandfathered registrations.)

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