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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by j16sdiz on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:20AM (#38035269)
wait... Did UN have rules over ccTLD? I thought ICANN is not under UN.
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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by dukeofharen on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:27AM (#38035310)
If I'm not mistaken, ICANN uses the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes as country TLD's, so in a sense the UN indirectly specifies the rules for ICANN. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by gbxyz on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:59AM (#38035515)
The UN publishes a list of recognised member states. ISO maintains a list of codes. IANA uses that list to determine whether a country code TLD is valid. But that's the extent of the UN's involvement in the governance of the root zone.
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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by midasuni on Friday October 27, 2023 @03:28AM (#38035693)
There are plenty of TLDs for areas which aren’t countries, whcih don’t claim to be counties, which nobody recognises as countries. .gg and .gu for example.
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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by notRobot on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:18AM (#38036292)
Those are not ccTLDs though.
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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by midasuni on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:02AM (#38036594)
Yes, they are.

https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/gg.html

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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by notRobot on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:20AM (#38038793)
Oh, I was wrong. My bad.
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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by infinityio on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:12AM (#38036672)
are you sure? Wikipedia describes both as being country code tlds, and both have an official ISO 3166-1 code that matches their domain.
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Re:Yugoslavia's Digital Twin: when a country's internet doma... by infinityio on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:16AM (#38036708)
> The IANA is not in the business of deciding what is and what is not a country. The selection of the ISO 3166 list as a basis for country code top-level domain names was made with the knowledge that ISO has a procedure for determining which entities should be and should not be on that list.

Jon Postel, RFC 1591 (Domain Name System Structure and Delegation)

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