Comment by the_mitsuhiko
12 days ago
Though not all country codes point to a country. See .eu, .ac .su as different examples of stuff that breaks the rules.
12 days ago
Though not all country codes point to a country. See .eu, .ac .su as different examples of stuff that breaks the rules.
the .su domain was made when the soviet union was still around, so that doesn't really break the rules. I would prefer for top level domains to be eternal for a great multitude of reasons
The possible annoyance with eternal country-code TLDs would be the dissolution of one country, and the creation (or renaming) of another country resulting in an eventual exhaustion of two-letter country codes. Eternity is a rather long duration.
Before exhaustion, you're likely to have new countries where they have to have suboptimal two letter codes, because a dissolved country is squating on it.
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if we run out of 2 letter TLDs, move to 3 letter ones. it really wouldn't be that hard. Also, that's assuming our current system stays in place
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> so that doesn't really break the rules
At the time it did not break the rules. It's breaking the rules now because by the original rules it should have been phased out. What makes it survive is a special arrangement.