cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406
Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!
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Why not use two letter country tlds? I have a few .uk ones.
It’s not a problem if you don’t expect to have problems with the UK government, and if you have faith that the UK government won’t collapse or get overthrown.
In the remote chance that a part of the UK breaks free (Scotland tends to have a petition about this every now and then), it’s possible that the people of the breakaway state lose access to their UK domains.
You’d think the probability of this happening is pretty insignificant, but plenty of UK citizens holding .eu domain names thought the same, until they lost the ability to privately hold .eu domains after politics got weird.
The risk of using country code TLDs is much higher for some countries than for others. Afghanistan wasn’t very stable before it was left up for grabs to the Taliban and I don’t exactly trust the regimes of several African nations to maintain control for more than a few years. On the other hand, I doubt Poland or Brazil will suffer from the same problems any time soon.
What happened to .su domains though?
I believe they’re officially deprecated. They were never in use much, with the Soviet Union collapsing long before the average ex-Soviet citizen had access to the internet. However, it was still reserved, and is still in use today. Russians and Russia affiliated countries seem to like the TLD.
I don’t think .su has any regional restrictions to the signup process. However, being a Russian TLD, getting one in the west may be risky and possibly even difficult because of sanctions.
Yeah. Is a shame what happened to .eu in the UK, I think they should have let private individuals keep renewing it at the least.
Presumably you’re a UK citizen using .uk in accordance with the controlling entity’s terms and conditions. These folks weren’t in the same boat.
I thought .uk was Ukraine?
Edit: .ua is Ukraine, .uk is the UK. It seems like the register hates the ISO…
In the ISO, UA is also Ukraine. UK is reserved because it would cause confusion with the United Kingdom, which has the code “GB”… Even though “UK” would make more sense as GB on the surface seems to exclude Northern Ireland as well as a bunch of outlying islands. Apparently they didn’t like the use of “United” and “Kingdom” as they are two standard nouns. Then they proceeded to give the USA “US” so… Yeah, it’s stupid.
Yeah, but the US is all about its exceptionalism, so it gets to be the exception.
Some other Central and Eastern European ones are weird as well.
South Africa is .za from Zuid-Africa, the dutch term for the country
At least it makes some sense, as they are mostly based on ISO 3166, as well as:
SA is the country code for Saudi Arabia.
As far as I understand it, the US invented the internet (possibly through the divine inspiration of Vice President Al Gore), so it makes sense that they can make or break any rules they want.
Talking about the ISO. Not the internet.
No. I LARP as being British.
How are you liking the Brexit expansion? I felt like was overhyped and overrated.
I unironically agree
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