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The British Indian Ocean Territory does not have a "general population". It's a perfectly good waste of a short and meaningful TLD, which we already have a few
by srik 13y ago
The British Indian Ocean Territory does not have a "general population". It's a perfectly good waste of a short and meaningful TLD, which we already have a few of as it is.
- nwh 13y ago.io isn't the only one either. There's quite a few ccTLD for countries that don't exist, never existed, or have never had a permant population. I can't imagine Google does geographical targeting for the lesser used ones like .co.ck. (for the Cook Islands off Australia).
- RBerenguel 13y agoLooks like a useful TLD for some kind of websites
- andyjohnson0 13y agoAnother one is the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which have the .hm ccTLD [1] despite having no human inhabitants. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands#Administration_and_economy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islan... Edit: Corrected domain. Thanks @jonemo.
- jonemo 13y ago.hn is Honduras, I think you meant to type .hm If you are wondering if show.hn and ask.hn are valid: No, Hondorus uses the *.[com|net|org|edu|...].hn format [1] Edit: Ignore that second part. It's wrong. You can register .hn and someone did that for show.hn and ask.hn. You can have ask.hn for $10k [2]. Didn't do thorough enough research earlier because I was on my phone and my fingers are fat and the touchscreen buttons small. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hn [2] http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?language=us&domain=ask.hn&partnerid=55490&origin=partner http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?language=us&doma...
- nwh 13y agoSome registries seem to be fairly lenient though, formally domains can't be registered at the second level of .au (must be .com.au or .org.au), yet somehow http://csiro.au/ http://csiro.au/ exists.
- andyjohnson0 13y agoIts often the case that these domains were registered by organisations (like, I assume, CSIRO) that had an early internet presence which pre-dates the formal procedures that were later adopted by registrars.
- nwh 13y agoThey predate even whois apparently. The web based auDA whois returns absolutely no data too. $ whois csiro.au No Data Found
- justincormack 13y agoAlso strange things like .britishlibrary.uk in the early days no one quite knew how naming was going to pan out.
- Uchikoma 13y agoHow chauvinist is this reply. I would not have thought to see such a thing on HN.
- TheCoelacanth 13y agoI don't see how it's chauvinist to suggest that a "country" with no human inhabitants except for foreign military personnel doesn't need its own ccTLD.
- Oxxide 13y agothat's because it isn't.
- Uchikoma 13y agoIt is. Removing natives, stealing their land, then declaring there is no population so you also get their TLD is chauvinist.
- Uchikoma 13y agoSo when I remove you forcibly from your land (which the inhabitants were by the British government), then I steal your land and later I declare there is "no general population" so you have no right to a TLD either, it is not chauvinist when I declare you non existent? Because you were native and could not defend yourself against a modern army?
- Uchikoma 13y ago"On 11 May 2006, the High Court ruled that a 2004 Order in Council preventing the Chagossians' resettlement of the islands was unlawful, and consequently that the Chagossians were entitled to return to the outer islands of the Chagos Archipelago. [...] According to a WikiLeaks disclosure document, in a calculated move in 2009 to prevent re-settlement of the BIOT by native Chagossians, the UK proposed that the BIOT become a "marine reserve" with the aim of preventing the former inhabitants from returning to their lands. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory