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Re: Off Topic: New location for Austalia
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Date: 
Fri, 28 May 1999 23:09:08 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> Jamie:  All of the loc groups are parallelized and orthogonalized by
> country.  The two-letter designators (that is, the xx's in lugnet.loc.xx)
> are the countries' respective Internet first-level domains, so as long as
> New Zealand has its own top-level domain, that's where it stays.  Scotland
> and Northern Ireland are technically part of the UK, so that's why those
> countries are listed inside the .loc.uk hierarchy.

So where is lugnet.loc.gb then?  It itself is a top level domain - I've
noticed in the list that the Title for the UK was "UK of GB and NI" - I
didn't know that GB and UK were essentially that different - an American
proves me wrong :-)

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(...) You're serious, then? Hmm, I don't think I've never ever seen it used. Do you remember where did you heard/saw that? (...) But I got that information straight from the CIA. :-) Please correct me if it's wrong. Here is the URL: (URL) .loc.uk to (...) (27 years ago, 29-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)

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  Re: Off Topic: New location for Austalia
 
(...) Oh. I see. Jamie: All of the loc groups are parallelized and orthogonalized by country. The two-letter designators (that is, the xx's in lugnet.loc.xx) are the countries' respective Internet first-level domains, so as long as New Zealand has (...) (27 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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