• @steventhedev@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        ccTLDs are based on the ISO two letter country codes - it’s deferring the responsibility for cleaning up the British mess to ISO

        • @nixcamic@lemmy.world
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          22 days ago

          But why did the Indian ocean territories ever have an ISO country code, they were never a country? It doesn’t make sense that a territory should lose its TLD just cause it changes countries.

          • @steventhedev@lemmy.world
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            12 days ago

            Half grandfathered in from a period when UK was a commonwealth, and ANZAC were not technically independent.

            ISO-3166-1 has a lot of “countries” that aren’t actually independent - but useful to have codes for because they are geographically distinct.