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Interestingly, Kosovo is in multiple organizations that fall under "UN Specialized Agencies" (IMF, World Bank, etc.) and as such should have received a ccTLD ov
by rcbdev 3y ago
Interestingly, Kosovo is in multiple organizations that fall under "UN Specialized Agencies" (IMF, World Bank, etc.) and as such should have received a ccTLD over 10-15 years ago as per the UN's rules.
Instead, they have to keep the temporarily assigned .xk which the UN confirmed can never be a permanent ccTLD.
What is going to happen to all .xk sites once the UN finally gets around to publishing the bulletin on Kosovo's country code?
- j16sdiz 3y agowait... Did UN have rules over ccTLD? I thought ICANN is not under UN.
- dukeofharen 3y agoIf I'm not mistaken, ICANN uses the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes as country TLD's, so in a sense the UN indirectly specifies the rules for ICANN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
- gbxyz 3y agoThe UN publishes a list of recognised member states. ISO maintains a list of codes. IANA uses that list to determine whether a country code TLD is valid. But that's the extent of the UN's involvement in the governance of the root zone.
- midasuni 3y agoThere are plenty of TLDs for areas which aren’t countries, whcih don’t claim to be counties, which nobody recognises as countries. .gg and .gu for example.
- notRobot 3y agoThose are not ccTLDs though.
- midasuni 3y agoYes, they are. https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/gg.html https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/gg.html
- notRobot 3y agoOh, I was wrong. My bad.
- infinityio 3y agoare you sure? Wikipedia describes both as being country code tlds, and both have an official ISO 3166-1 code that matches their domain.
- infinityio 3y ago> The IANA is not in the business of deciding what is and what is not a country. The selection of the ISO 3166 list as a basis for country code top-level domain names was made with the knowledge that ISO has a procedure for determining which entities should be and should not be on that list. Jon Postel, RFC 1591 (Domain Name System Structure and Delegation)
- pacija 3y ago[flagged]
- paddim8 3y agoSerbian detected. Kosovo is a country.
- dotemacs 3y ago> Kosovo is a country. Not according to the international community and international law. The majority of the UN recognised countries, 106 do not recognise it. Whilst only 94 do. The same way that Afghan democratic government melted away, when the US troops withdrew, so will "Kosovo" go.
- rcbdev 3y agoPlease remove your nationalistic genocidal support from this site for tech talk. Kosovo will not "go" away just because you like Milosevic decide to murder more Albanians - This is completely disregarding the fact that Serbia is an island of nationalism and revisionism clinging to the past, surrounded by democracies living in the present day. Serbia will never again have the capacity to execute on these misguided beliefs.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> The majority of the UN recognised countries, 106 do not recognize it. A majority -- 102 of 193 -- UN members do recognize it. You may be counting some (though with your number, I think not all) of the false claims of withdrawal of recognition by other states which have been issued by the governments or state-affiliated media of Serbia and/or Russia, but later refuted by the governments in question, as being true.
- jmopp 3y agoTaiwan is less recognised by the outside world than Kosovo is, and it has its own country code. Same with Palestine. Having a country code is only weakly related to being a country.
- gbxyz 3y ago.xk does not exist. https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db
- zdimension 3y agoAs the parent comment said, it's a temporary TLD, so by design it does not appear in the root listing. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xk
- gbxyz 3y agoIt has never been present in the DNS root zone. A TLD that doesn't exist in the DNS is not really a TLD, is it?