I know that IANA bases its list of ccTLDs on the 3166 list.
Does anyone know if the 3166 secretariat has a preliminary choice in mind?
I see press coverage of ".scot", but of course that's not germane.
I see also a suggestion, credited to Dave Eastabrook (sp?) of .ab, which
apparently stands for Alba, which I will assume has historical significance
(the country name in Scots Gaelic, perhaps?)
What kind of timeframe would a new ccTLD for a major country roll out on?
Cheers,
-- jra
Alba was the ancient roman name for England, meaning white, because if the
white cliffs of Dover
They called Scotland Caledonia and Ireland Hibernia
Scotland is named for an ancient / mythical queen named Scota so they
should be fine with say sc
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Alba was the ancient roman name for England, meaning white, because if
the white cliffs of DoverThey called Scotland Caledonia and Ireland Hibernia
Ah.
Scotland is named for an ancient / mythical queen named Scota so they
should be fine with say sc
Except that, alas, .sc is already assigned, to Seychelles. Or this wouldn't
be a thing. 
Cheers,
-- jra
.SC is the ccTLD for Seychelles
- mark
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
sc is Seychelles. Available s* include sf, sp, sq, su and sw. They should
pick .sf, use .scot for in-country domains and sell all .sf domains to San
Francisco residents.
Rubens
Why not ct?
The Scots have always embraced Caledonia. Heck, their airline, before BA bought them, was called British Caledonia (a better airline than BA IMHO)
su is not available.
--msa
no-one's recently found oil under the Seychelles, so there doesn't seem to
be an immediate need to install some new democracy over there and liberate
the downtrodden .sc domain.
Otherwise, "Alba" is the scottish Gaelic for "Scotland", but .al is
assigned to Albania.
Nick
Typo. SHould have been CE
Jay Ashworth writes:
> I know that IANA bases its list of ccTLDs on the 3166 list.
>
> Does anyone know if the 3166 secretariat has a preliminary choice in
> mind?
It hasn't.
> I see press coverage of ".scot", but of course that's not
> germane.
That is a gTLD at best, not an alpha-2 ISO 3166 code.
>
> I see also a suggestion, credited to Dave Eastabrook (sp?) of .ab,
> which apparently stands for Alba, which I will assume has historical
> significance (the country name in Scots Gaelic, perhaps?)
>
> What kind of timeframe would a new ccTLD for a major country roll out
> on?
Well, first the country has to exist, which can take some time even
when the vote is yes. ISO 3166 MA allocates a code, and tries to
do that as soon as possible the country has a name etc., hopefully
it can be arranged at the date the country became in existing (which
was the case with recent new coutries (SS, SX, CW etc.) but that
are no guarantees. Then ICANA can pick a registry, delegate etc.
Whether they plan to prepare for that in advance one has to ask
IANA.
jaap
SF (Finland, from “Suomi Finland”) is “transitionally reserved” meaning it is allocated but will be removed from the allocated list “soon” (for some value of the variable “soon”). I believe the hold down timer for transitionally reserved is something like 50 years now. As such, it’s not available.
SU is the Soviet Union, now classified as “exceptionally reserved” which IANA treats as available for assignment (other exceptionally reserved codes are EU, UK, and AC). Don’t get me started on why SU is exceptionally reserved instead of transitionally reserved.
Regards,
-drc
Do we get to bill time and materials (t&m) if they vote to secede? I mean,
we're engineers and all but even this discussion has netted a
nonsignificant number of billable hours.
Remember, the entire secession movement is being funded by a couple of
Lottery winners.
Just sayin'.
-j
Just in case?
;>
The main issue wouldn't be the timeframe for a rollout of a Scottish ccTLD but rather the disengagement from the .UK ccTLD. The legislative part will take time and there might also be an issue about the contract to operate the registry being put out to tender. It might definitely be a question of months and these things can drag on.
In the event of a Yes vote in the independence referendum, most of Scotland's domain name footprint will still be .UK orientated. That would be very slow to change and the new ccTLD would begin to operate in parallel with that. That .SCOT gTLD could end up being very lucky as it might just fill a niche in a market where there is no serious competition from a local official ccTLD.
Regards...jmcc
Ssshhhh!
.PC, for Picts (I believe it's available.) But I doubt that would fly.
They could combine Scotland and Picts to rationalize .SP.
I don't know anything about Scotland's attitude toward being
identified with the Picts, however. Perhaps that's a nonsensical idea.
Oh well. I guess if Scotland devolves they should invade
Seychelles. Problem solved.
Um ... the history of Scots not wanting to be ruled by !Scots goes back a wee bit further.
Doug
A better question is why is SU still in the root?
Doug *ducks and runs*
Clearly the right answer here is either .SW or perhaps just .WH (since a whisky from a place other than Scotland is obviously just wrong ... :))
Regards,
-drc
It has current significance, as Gaelic is recognised as an official
(albeit minority) language. This is probably a reasonable suggestion.
The irony is that these kinds of infrastructure questions are so far
below the radar of the Scottish Government that I wouldn't be
surprised at all if its operation were outsourced to Nominet...