[Techtalk] Criteria for TLDs

[Kelly Jones]

Actually, Greenland wasn't a country when the TLD was assigned, though
it will become one next month (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland).

I probably chose a bad example. Here are some better ones:

US Virgin Islands (.vi), a US territory
Heard Island and McDonald Islands (.hm), uninhabited Australian territory
Reunion Island (.re), part of France
British Indian Ocean Territory (.io), uninhabited UK territory

My point: many non-independent islands smaller and less important than
Hawaii have TLDs.

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On 5/10/09, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
> 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. ;)
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
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