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ICANN does not pick the abbreviations. ISO does.
by Spray3610 3y ago
ICANN does not pick the abbreviations. ISO does.
- srhngpr 3y agoISO3166-1 alpha-2 to be exact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
- actionfromafar 3y agoIt's odd ISO has such a control to effect an countries income just by choosing a good abbreviation. I doubt the creators of the DNS system had any idea that domains would arbitrarily give some countries an extra form of income, profiting from people who could care less about the country it was created for. Why didn't ISO just charge a flat fee for any string to resolve to an IP?
- dharmab 3y agoISO created the country codes in 1974, prior to the invention of DNS.
- pcthrowaway 3y agoSurely some of these country codes have come about after the dawn of DNS. I wonder if we'll see newly formed countries angling for names that will get valuable abbreviations
- actionfromafar 3y agoHaha, this is both informative and deadpan. Thanks. :)
- reactordev 3y agoThis is what tech debt looks like when it’s middle aged and has kids of its own.
- feelandcoffee 3y ago[flagged]
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- sdsd 3y agoi get why people are downvoting this, because it is snarky, but i laughed so hard. so thanks for posting this, despite the hit to your internet points