@morrowind@lemmy.ml to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 5 months agoItch drama is getting reallemmy.mlimagemessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1666arrow-down17
arrow-up1659arrow-down1imageItch drama is getting reallemmy.ml@morrowind@lemmy.ml to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world • 5 months agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-square@nixcamic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•5 months agoYeah but they UK has like 5 other domains besides .io
minus-square@steventhedev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•5 months agoccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it’s deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO
minus-square@nixcamic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•5 months agoBut why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.
minus-square@steventhedev@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•5 months agoHalf grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent. ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.
Yeah but they UK has like 5 other domains besides .io
ccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it’s deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO
But why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.
Half grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent.
ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.