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Post by simion314 »

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.

Isn't a contradiction that "globalists" are the bad guys in your story and at the same time UK wants to keep the benefits of being part of EU market ?

What I see happening is that in some countries the EU become the scapegoat for the government corruption and incompetence, usually you could use the other party that was before to blame them but if your party was in power for more then 8 years then is harder to find scapegoats.

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Post by dang »

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!

There's also the second-chance process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380.

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Post by manjana »

paulpauper wrote: post #42

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

Perhaps (if you may classify it as exclusive) .arpa which is still in use I think but you cannot register new domains.

There's also .aero which is pretty exclusive: "only those in various categories of air-travel-related entities may register." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_d...

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Post by teddyh »

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

No. The official TLD – i.e. “Top Level Domain”, is .uk. It differs from the normal ISO 3166 two-character country code, GB, even though most other countries have an identical TLD and ISO two-character code. The TLD .gb is merely reserved to deter shenanigans.

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Post by adventured »

mc32 wrote: post #45
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.

I believe anyone can register the .xyz domains. They're typically on sale for $0.99 on GoDaddy for the first year, so there seems to be a lot of junk, volume registrations using it.

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Post by creativenolo »

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…

Great Britain (or Britain) refers to geographic feature (the island) which includes Scotland whether it be part of the UK or possibly not.

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Post by wereHamster »

mc32 wrote: post #45
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.

.xyz is pretty easy to get, it doesn't even cost that much, it's affordable even for individuals

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Post by input_sh »

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…

Wales has .cymru and .wales.
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