[Techtalk] Criteria for TLDs

[Magni Onsoien]

On 2009-05-11 11:31:43 +1000, Daniel Pittman said:
> Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Why does Greenland have a TLD, but not Hawaii, for example?
> 
> Greenland is a country, Hawaii isn't.  There is, however, a 'hi.us.'
> domain namespace allocated to Hawaii.  You can probably guess from the
> existence of 'ak.us.' and 'wy.us.' what the intermediate names are.
> 
> > What are the rules governing who gets a TLD and who doesn't?
> 
> ICANN set the rules.  http://www.icann.org/
> 
> Other than the generic TLDs, though, the rule is if you are a country
> then you get a 'ccTLD', or "country code top level domain".  If you are
> not then...
> 
> Well, the rest is left as an exercise to the reader. ;)

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Governance. Infrastructure and Institutions" (Lee A. Bygrave and Jon 
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Disclaimer: The company I work for (Norid) is one of the sponsors 
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Magni :)