[174439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scotland ccTLD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TR Shaw)
Tue Sep 16 11:54:03 2014
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From: TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com>
In-Reply-To: <31924537.1808.1410882209423.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:52:38 -0400
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sep 16, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
>=20
>> Alba was the ancient roman name for England, meaning white, because =
if
>> the white cliffs of Dover
>>=20
>> They called Scotland Caledonia and Ireland Hibernia
>=20
> Ah.
>=20
>> Scotland is named for an ancient / mythical queen named Scota so they
>> should be fine with say sc
>=20
> Except that, alas, .sc is already assigned, to Seychelles. Or this =
wouldn't
> be a thing. :-)
>=20
Why not ct?=20
The Scots have always embraced Caledonia. Heck, their airline, before =
BA bought them, was called British Caledonia (a better airline than BA =
IMHO)
