Re: [ga] FYI: New TLD for East Timor?

[steinle@smartvia.de]

Zaire (.zr) is now Democratic Republic of the Congo (.cd)
USSR (.su) is now .ru, .by, .ua,...

.zr and .su are no longer used.
But someone wants / wanted to renew .su


> I'd have to look back through the archives of my weblog to confirm it, but I
> believe there's some precedent for changing ccTLD extensions when a country
> changes names. I think ICANN successfully migrated a country to a new
> extension last summer.
>       -- Bret
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> ___________________________________________________________
> Alexander Svensson wrote:
> > East Timor was formerly also known as 'Timor Portuguesa'
> > (hence .tp?). http://www.iana.org/root-whois/tp.htm
> > 
> > The official country name will now be
> > 'Republica Democratica de Timor Leste'
> > (http://www.elaw.org/resources/text.asp?ID=1071)
> > which makes .tl for Timor Leste quite probable.
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