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Re: (What If?) ccTLD Delegation Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Oct 3 17:40:19 2005

Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:39:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: Joe Johnson <nanog@sendjoeanemail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20051003212827.DDFF432C02C@smtpauth00.csee.siteprotect.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Joe Johnson wrote:

>
> Call it Monday Boredom, if you will, but a funny DNS question just 
> popped into my head: if I were to, say, win the lotto and buy my own 
> Island (which, of course, would technically be its own country), would I 
> be able to receive a ccTLD for said island nation?  Kind of like 
> .joejohnsonisland or .jji?

Your recognition the UN could take a while.

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,1065,00.html

> If so, would the DNS have to be actually contained inside of said 
> island?  I think not, as it was mentioned earlier that .iq was run from 
> Texas, but it's always good to ask.
>
>
>
> Joe Johnson
> joe@sendjoeanemail.com
>
>

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