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Catalan culture. A regional-cultural TLD. If small countries get TLDs, why shouldn't a tightly connected culture of ~5 million get one too?
by die_sekte 16y ago
Catalan culture. A regional-cultural TLD. If small countries get TLDs, why shouldn't a tightly connected culture of ~5 million get one too?
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- anghyflawn 16y agoI'm all for .cat, but I can see the arguments against. People are already campaigning for .cym for Wales, so where do we stop? Do all the regional communities on Spain get one (Basque country, Asturias, Galicia, the list goes on). Do the Saami in Scandinavia get one? (They have their own parliaments, so why not TLDs?) What about Native Americans / First Nations? At least being a country is a criterion that works 95+ percent of the time
- heyitsnick 16y ago>> People are already campaigning for .cym for Wales, so where do we stop? Wales is recognised as a country, not a "regional community"
- anghyflawn 16y agoUm, actually the constitutional status of Wales is a murky topic, and even if that were to be cleared up unambiguously, how do you compare statuses across constitutions?
- heyitsnick 16y agoIt's really not that murky. I'm hard pushed to find any organisation that doesn't classify Wales as a country.
- qntm 16y agoThe EU? The UN? Wales is a constituent country of the United Kingdom and has some devolved power. However, it is the United Kingdom which is internationally recognised.
- tedunangst 16y agoThey don't have their own seat at the UN for instance. They don't field their own team at the Olympics. If Wales needs a tld, what about Texas? Texas has a distinct culture and was once an independent republic. I'm sure people from Wales think they are independent in some way that Texas is not, but people from Texas think those thoughts too.
- anghyflawn 16y agoIt is actually extremely murky, because there is no single document which states what the constitutional status is, there is a patchwork of legislation which refers to England and Wales, then there are the Wales-specific acts such as the Welsh Language Acts, and then there's the devolution and the devolved legislation (which establishes that Wales is to some degree independent within the UK). The constitutional problem, in a nutshell, is that Henry VIII introduced the Laws in Wales Acts to create the legal entity "England and Wales", but there had been no legal entity "Wales" before he did. Also, if Wales is already a country, why is independence the stated aim of Plaid Cymru :)?
- narag 16y ago.cat is because of their language. I think it makes sense. I mean Catalán, not lolcat :-)
- notahacker 16y agoI'd think .cym for Welsh language sites would be a good thing. I'd see a lot more point in that than .net, a general-purpose namespace which is used generally by people too slow off the mark to register the .com (yes, I know it wasn't intended to be that way).
- rlpb 16y agoWhat's wrong with cym.uk?
- vacri 16y agoWales isn't a country!? I would have thought of all people, someone with a handle like "anghyflawn" might be a bit more compassionate to the plight of the cymry...
- DrJokepu 16y agoWales is not a sovereign state, which is what "country" means in this context.
- vacri 16y agoIf you're going to abuse Wikipedia that way, you should be referring to him as Jimbo.
- anghyflawn 16y agoI think you misunderstand me :). I don't think .cym is a bad idea at all, but I can understand those who might think it is not. Wales is not a country in the way that Russia, Tuvalu, Kenya or even Jersey are (and even in the latter sense there are fringe cases such as Western Sahara, Kosovo and South Ossetia). If Catalonia and Wales are OK, is Sápmi? What about culturally distinct minorities with no political recognition such as the Roma? It's just too messy.
- tptacek 16y agoDoesn't that argue for .trek as well?
- die_sekte 16y agoIf you can find a few million who spend most of their time in the cultural group of trekkies, then yeah. But still, deregulation and all. Domains will stop mattering somewhen soon. Search engines are important.