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im going to make a guess that because Eire is the "Irish" of the the name, and most of the rest of the domains are based on the English of the name... since the
by tiernano 6y ago
im going to make a guess that because Eire is the "Irish" of the the name, and most of the rest of the domains are based on the English of the name... since the ISO standard name for Ireland is IE, that would make sense... Also, look at the UK... the official ISO code for that is GB, but they use UK for their ccTLD...
- kaishiro 6y agoYeah, I did notice that actually - and apparently it's because the UK asked ISO to place UK on the "Exceptionally Reserved" list - which is interesting in and of itself. What I don't understand is why they decided to go with IE/.ie instead of the (seemingly) more obvious EI/.ei, I know how ultimately inconsequential this is - it's really just a curiosity that I can't get my head around.
- CLPadvocate 6y agoI think UK is a different issue - GB (England + Wales + Scotland) is not the same as UK (GB + Nothern Ireland).