Talk:Internet ccTLDs

I'm not sure it's worthwhile to list all ccTLDs (rather than just mention the differences from ISO 3166 alpha-2 codes). But if we are going to do so, then it would make more sense to have a single list of TLDs that includes the gTLDs as well. So I think this list should be moved to Internet TLDs. --Zundark, 2001 Dec 20

I think its useful to have a list of ccTLDs separate from the ISO 3166 alpha-2 list. If someone wants to find out "what country is that ccTLD" or "what ccTLD is that country", a separate list would be helpful. Otherwise, they'd have to consult the ISO 3166 list, and mentally make the modifications listed in the TLD article. In fact, I think we should move most of the information on differences between ccTLDs and ISO 3166 to the end of this article (put the easier stuff for beginners first, the obscure nerdy details at the end :). I also don't having a merged page for ccTLDs and gTLDs would be that useful -- the ccTLDs outnumber the gTLDs significantly, and the gTLDs are likely to get lost amid all those ccTLDs. Unless of course, we put it into separate sections -- but then why not move all the information back to top-level domain then? Basically, my main idea here is to keep the basic information separate from the technical and historical details we seem to enjoy collecting :) -- SJK

But the distinction between gTLDs and ccTLDs is often meaningless in practice (consider NU, for example, or TV), so I think a unified list would be better. I'm not proposing to move any of the current information about gTLDs, I just don't want to see them omitted from our main list of TLDs. I've put the page at Internet TLDs so you can see what I'm proposing. The discussion on the Internet ccTLDs page would be moved back to Top-level domain, and the Internet ccTLDs page would be deleted or redirected. --Zundark, 2001 Dec 20

Zundark: Okay, now I think about it, I agree with you. -- SJK