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Preaumably youre being downvoted because of OP: Why are things this way? You: Because that's the way things are.
by admax88q 8y ago
Preaumably youre being downvoted because of
OP: Why are things this way?
You: Because that's the way things are.
- ryanlol 8y agoThe point is that these country codes predate the existence of TLDs by over a decade. ISO codes are this way because either the countries wanted the specific codes or didn't provide input. Almost all ccTLDs match their 2-letter ISO3166 codes.
- admax88q 8y agoRight but that doesn't answer the underlying question of why countries wanted codes based upon their English or local names.
- ryanlol 8y agoNobody was even thinking about TLDs when these were being decided. I would imagine that only a few, if any, countries really cared very much about this at the time.