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Re: (What If?) ccTLD Delegation Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Mon Oct 3 17:37:46 2005

In-Reply-To: <20051003212827.DDFF432C02C@smtpauth00.csee.siteprotect.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 17:36:22 -0400
To: "Joe Johnson" <nanog@sendjoeanemail.com>
From: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-establishment-procedures-19mar03.htm


At 16:28 -0500 10/3/05, 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?
>
>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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