{"id":450,"date":"2007-08-23T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=450"},"modified":"2007-08-23T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T21:13:00","slug":"internet-country-code-for-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/internet-country-code-for-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet country code for Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/darwells\/871272679\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1264\/871272679_6a98e4b725_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/darwells\/871272679\/\">Countries in the grass<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/darwells\/\">Darwells<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>If Scotland wins her independence one day, it will be necessary to assign a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iana.org\/cctld\/\">ccTLD<\/a> (country-code top-level domain) instead of <tt>.uk<\/tt>.  A ccTLD always consists of exactly two lower-case letters without any accents.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are so many countries in the world that there aren&#8217;t many options left.<\/p>\n<p>The most natural one would be <tt>.sc<\/tt>, I guess, but that&#8217;s the Seychelles.  <tt>.sl<\/tt>?  No, that&#8217;s Sierra Leone.  <tt>.so<\/tt>? <tt>.st<\/tt>? <tt>.sa<\/tt>? <tt>.sn<\/tt>? <tt>.sd<\/tt>?  Nope, that&#8217;s Somalia, S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal and Sudan, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, so what about basing it on the Gaelic name for Scotland, <i>Alba<\/i>?  Well, <tt>.al<\/tt> is Albania, and <tt>.as<\/tt> (for Alba\/Scotland) is American Samoa, but <tt>.ab<\/tt> is actually free, so I guess that would be the most obvious ccTLD.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t many options left. The most natural one would be .sc, I guess, but that&#8217;s the Seychelles. .sl? No, that&#8217;s Sierra Leone. .so? .st? .sa? .sn? .sd? Nope, that&#8217;s Somalia, S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe, Saudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,114,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-computing","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}