Internet country code for Scotland

August 23, 2007
Filed under: computing, en, web 

Countries in the grass
Originally uploaded by Darwells

If Scotland wins her independence one day, it will be necessary to assign a ccTLD (country-code top-level domain) instead of .uk. A ccTLD always consists of exactly two lower-case letters without any accents.

However, there are so many countries in the world that there aren’t many options left.

The most natural one would be .sc, I guess, but that’s the Seychelles. .sl? No, that’s Sierra Leone. .so? .st? .sa? .sn? .sd? Nope, that’s Somalia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal and Sudan, respectively.

Hmmm, so what about basing it on the Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba? Well, .al is Albania, and .as (for Alba/Scotland) is American Samoa, but .ab is actually free, so I guess that would be the most obvious ccTLD.

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One Response to “Internet country code for Scotland”

  1. Most Rev Dr Cesidio Tallini on August 24th, 2007 14:59

    What is Scotland waiting for? The Queen’s approval of her independence? Independent Scotland sounds like a castle in the air, more than a real country.

    We of the new entity called Independent Long Island (ILI) already have a working TLD, and without nobody’s permission, which is the way it is supposed to be:

    http://ilination (or http://gov.ili in the Cesidian Root)

    Most Rev Dr Cesidio Tallini

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