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True, though .uk is more correct (Great Britain doesn't include Northern Ireland) and is reserved by the United Kingdom in ISO 3166
by earnubs 14y ago
True, though .uk is more correct (Great Britain doesn't include Northern Ireland) and is reserved by the United Kingdom in ISO 3166
- toyg 14y agoI'd agree if it weren't for the confusion it generates, as ISO country codes GB/GBR counter-intuitively don't map to a TLD. Also, Ukraine got shafted into another mismatch (UA is TLD and ISO alpha-2, UKR is alpha-3), although in their case one could say the country wasn't around when ISO codes were formulated. Some Linux distributions used to have a UK keymap which was... ukrainian. That was a lot of fun to fix (not).
- olliesaunders 14y agoAlso, as a citizen of the UK, I really like any move away from the whole "great" in Great Britain. It makes us sound like we’re run by Hafez Aladeen from The Dictator or something.