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.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

by nwh 14y 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 14y ago
Looks like a useful TLD for some kind of websites
andyjohnson0 14y ago
Another 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 14y 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 14y ago
    Some 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 14y ago
      Its 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 14y ago
        They predate even whois apparently. The web based auDA whois returns absolutely no data too. $ whois csiro.au No Data Found
      - justincormack 14y ago
        Also strange things like .britishlibrary.uk in the early days no one quite knew how naming was going to pan out.

by nwh 14y ago

RBerenguel 14y ago

Looks like a useful TLD for some kind of websites

andyjohnson0 14y ago

Another 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 14y 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 14y ago
  Some 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 14y ago
    Its 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 14y ago
      They predate even whois apparently. The web based auDA whois returns absolutely no data too. $ whois csiro.au No Data Found
    - justincormack 14y ago
      Also strange things like .britishlibrary.uk in the early days no one quite knew how naming was going to pan out.