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I suppose you could backronym it to mean Ireland/Eire, if you wanted. Funny. I've never really wondered about this before [and I'm Irish!] but now you've got m

I suppose you could backronym it to mean Ireland/Eire, if you wanted. Funny. I've never really wondered about this before [and I'm Irish!] but now you've got me puzzling too. IR not being available [Iran] the next most logical would seem to be: .EI --Éire .ER --could also work for Éire .RI --Republic of Ireland [Official name of the country in English] .PE --Poblacht na hÉireann [Official name of the country in Irish] I've never heard of Inis Eagla by the way. Must be very obscure. If someone fancies asking the .ie official registrar, on the off-chance they actually know, their Twitter account is at @IEDR_dot_ie [I'm not on Twitter, so I can't do it]

kaishiro 6y ago
Oh wow, the dual meaning of Ireland/Eire for .ie is actually a really interesting take that I hadn't considered before. Thanks for the suggestion as well - it's a good one. I'll send them a message shortly. In the meantime, I actually reached out directly to ISO yesterday re: this and actually received the following reply last night: "Dear kaishiro, By way of reply, I'm bringing your query to the attention of the Secretariat for the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency, which perhaps may have some historical information to offer on the subject. Best regards"
kaishiro 6y ago
And sent: https://twitter.com/kaishir0/status/1291126676911316993 https://twitter.com/kaishir0/status/1291126676911316993 We'll see if it gets any traction.