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In lugnet.admin.general, carbon60@bigfoot.com (Carbon 60) writes:
> 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.
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> So where is lugnet.loc.gb then? It itself is a top level domain -
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?
> 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 :-)
But I got that information straight from the CIA. :-)
Please correct me if it's wrong. Here is the URL:
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/uk.html#gov
--Todd
[Added .loc.uk to crosspost list]
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| (...) I've never seen it used - I've only ever seen a place offering you to sell you one once - that was deep in the Internet-Admin sites. I got it off (URL) - not exactly the most official place to find it but they must have got it from somewhere. (...) (27 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) 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 :-) (27 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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