[174442] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scotland ccTLD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TR Shaw)
Tue Sep 16 12:04:29 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: TR Shaw <tshaw@oitc.com>
In-Reply-To: <0C94FDB7-DA73-49F2-BD4B-6C91DF56EF03@oitc.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:03:14 -0400
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sep 16, 2014, at 11:52 AM, TR Shaw wrote:
>=20
> On Sep 16, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>=20
>> ----- 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
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> Why not ct?=20
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> The Scots have always embraced Caledonia. Heck, their airline, before =
BA bought them, was called British Caledonia (a better airline than BA =
IMHO)
>=20
>=20
Typo. SHould have been CE=
