Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?

Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by bearmode on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:33AM (#33691420)

>When that ends and the island is re-unified

Why are you trying to force 2 million people to live in a country that most of them explicitly don't want to?

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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by robin_reala on Monday November 21, 2022 @06:46AM (#33691507)

Reunification will happen when the majority of them do want to, and that’s probably not that far away given the chart at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ireland#Northern_Irelan...

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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by morelisp on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:37AM (#33691849)

Two years, obviously.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Irish_Unification_of_20...

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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by bearmode on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:06AM (#33691654)

And that's absolutely fine, I'll cheer them on in the reunification process when that time comes. But at the moment they don't, and it's silly to suggest that it's still a colony until then.

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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by dontlaugh on Monday November 21, 2022 @09:51AM (#33693107)

I'm not trying to force anyone to do anything. I'd like the British state to stop forcing NI to be part of the UK. What the people of NI then choose to do is up to them.

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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by bearmode on Monday November 21, 2022 @10:21AM (#33693520)

> I'd like the British state to stop forcing NI to be part of the UK.

This isn't happening.

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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by umanwizard on Monday November 21, 2022 @01:52PM (#33696331)

The Good Friday Agreement, which the UK is party to, explicitly gives Northern Ireland the right to leave the UK if the majority of people there want to.

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