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Re: (What If?) ccTLD Delegation Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Mon Oct 3 19:07:18 2005

Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:06:48 -0700
From: JC Dill <lists05@equinephotoart.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20051003212827.DDFF432C02C@smtpauth00.csee.siteprotect.com>
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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),

That's terribly hard to do:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand>

> would I be able to receive a ccTLD for said island nation?  

Since Sealand doesn't have a ccTLD yet:

<http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm>

I would expect the process to take quite a while (i.e. decades).

jc

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