A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win back control of its ccTLD

Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by zinekeller on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:22PM (#25447188)

Because unlike other TLDs, the two-letter root domains are well-defined as ccTLDs way back in 1990 defining it as "following ISO 3166" two-letter code, and ISO has assigned Niue as NU. The only exception now is .UK and .SU (United Kingdom is technically GB but before ICANN it was assigned both UK and GB and Soviet Union is gone but it has became de facto ccTLD for CIS).

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Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by randyrand on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:29PM (#25447322)

There's no requirement to follow 1990s rules.

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Re:A tiny island nation just launched major effort to win ba... by zinekeller on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:42PM (#25447466)

There is definitely a requirement to following international treaties unless everyone agrees to withdraw it.

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