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I've always wondered what is so special about catalan? Why do they deserve a special three letter domain nobody else has? Who should I address a letter to requ
by Thiz 13y ago
I've always wondered what is so special about catalan? Why do they deserve a special three letter domain nobody else has?
Who should I address a letter to request for the wayuu culture to have a .way tld?
- freehunter 13y agoI would love for the Appalachian culture to apply for the .app TLD.
- cqdx 13y agoWhat culture?
- farresito 13y agoMaybe this will help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACountry_code_top-level_domain#.ct_and_.cw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ACountry_code_top-level_d... Summarizing, we might not have qualified for a two-letter domain because we are not an independent country.
- cpach 13y agoICANN.
- iagooar 13y agoThe thing is, the Catalan community has a very strong presence on the Internet. As an example, the Catalan version of Wikipedia currently has +400.000 articles, being the 17th biggest. To make clear what this means, you have to know that Catalan isn't even under the 100 most spoken languages worldwide (it has about 7 million speakers). So there is 1 article for every 17.5 people. Compared to the English version (4.4 million articles, 700 million speakers = 1 article every 159 people), or the Spanish one (1 million articles, 460 million speakers = 1 article every 460 people!), it is quite impressive. So why would they want an own .cat domain? Because as a non-independent country / nationality, they are not allowed to have a two letter domain. Still, they wanted to be represented on the net so there was the PuntCAT foundation which did a huge effort in order to obtain the three letter .cat domain, but as it was sponsored, I imagine that they decided to restrict the usage of it to websites that have something to do with Catalan culture, or at least are written in Catalan. I must say the Catalan culture and political movement is a pretty interesting topic itself, but I didn't want to make this post political, but rather interesting for "teh techies".
- MichaelGG 13y agoProvinces can get ccTLDs - Taiwan has .tw. Sponsoring and getting .cat is a pretty cool workaround, though.
- rahimnathwani 13y agoCan provinces really get ccTLDs? I thought .tw existed because Taiwan has an ISO country code: http://www.iso.org/iso/country_names_and_code_elements http://www.iso.org/iso/country_names_and_code_elements Having said that, I'm not sure why the UK (whose country code is GB) uses .uk
- rurounijones 13y agoBecause GB Is "Great Britain" (England, Scotland, Wales)[1] which does not include Northern Ireland. UK is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" which is all four. It was a politically motivated move basically. [1] Lets not get pedantic here.
- micampe 13y agoHong Kong has a ccTLD (and an ISO country code, and a currency) but is not a country, while still mostly working like one.
- MichaelGG 13y agoIANA considers .tw to be "Taiwan, Province of China", as does that ISO link. As I understand, China pretty much bullied everyone else into not recognizing Taiwan so the rest of the world (like the UN) agrees Taiwan isn't a country. That's why one reason Microsoft asks for your Region, not country. There appear to be other ccTLDs like .IO and .AQ that aren't countries. (Probably more.) And I'm just being pedantic.
- rahimnathwani 13y agoBoth IO and AQ are ISO country codes as well. I'm not sure why.
- dmacvicar 13y agoAs a man married to a Catalan girl. Be careful where you are going :-).