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Re: Scotland ccTLD?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Sep 16 11:43:42 2014

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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:43:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>

> Alba was the ancient roman name for England, meaning white, because if
> the white cliffs of Dover
> 
> They called Scotland Caledonia and Ireland Hibernia

Ah.

> Scotland is named for an ancient / mythical queen named Scota so they
> should be fine with say sc

Except that, alas, .sc is already assigned, to Seychelles.  Or this wouldn't
be a thing.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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