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Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by Symbiote on Monday July 10, 2017 @03:45PM (#14739020)
Because the domain name system uses ISO-8859, which provides codes for "countries, territories and islands".

The standard provides codes for such places since different law often applies in territories and on islands.

(See also: UM, TW, EH, AQ, SH, SJ, and many others.)

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Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by moo360 on Monday July 10, 2017 @08:41PM (#14740794)
I think you mean ISO-3166-1, ISO-8859 is a standard for character encoding eg: latin1 (which is probably why you know it).
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Re:Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registr... by jsjohnst on Monday July 10, 2017 @08:41PM (#14740789)
I think you mixed up your ISOs. ISO-8859 is for 8bit character encodings.
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