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

[Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>]

Bret Fausett <fausett@lextext.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

Yes, indeed, that changes happen. 
We had .zr (Zaire) which was created in 1996:
960926 Zaire (Republic of) top-level domain (ZR2-DOM) 
and later on .cd (Congo Democratic) created in 1997:
970820 Congo (The Democratic Republic of the) top-level domain (CD27-DOM) 
because Zaire changed its name to Congo Democratic.

cf. http://www.ccwhois.org/ccwhois/cctld/ccTLDs-by-date.html

But it is exceptional that a ccTLD can be removed from
the root, and .zr was indeed an exceptional case.

The IANA Report on Deletion of the .zr Top-Level Domain
(20 June 2001) is at:
http://www.iana.org/reports/zr-report-20jun01.htm

Elisabeth Porteneuve
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