Should Scotland Have Its Own TLD?
January 1, 2 Comments - Author: Simon Johnson
Ahh Scotland. The top bit of that big island known as the UK. You know the place: William Wallace, Braveheart, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo. Well it appears that they are a little bit irritated by “sharing” .uk and now they want their own TLD. Hmmm.. cant think of any reason why a Scotsman wouldn’t like the English.
Apparently the First Minister Alex Salmond visited the Spanish region of Catalonia and found this thing called the Internet. It turns out that Catalonia has .cat and so he wants .sco – just don’t tell him about SCO Unix. By the way – pussy.cat is taken.
“It is not only for Scots who live in Scotland but for our extensive Diaspora and it will be particularly appropriate for a bid to be made during the 2009 Year of Homecoming” Salmond said. I’m wondering if that means that all the Scots are leaving us to go home now its the new year?
It might come as no surprise that there is strong support for dot scot; according to the UK Press Association “Two government surveys showed support among Scots organisations running at 58% and in an international poll, the figure rose to 82%”. Scotland’s governing party, the SNP has got together a working group and is preparing for the submission to ICANN (assuming .anything-goes).
Word also has it that Groundskeeper Willie wants bigwillie.scot. So what do you think? Should Scotland have it’s own TLD or be made to share with those lovely English folk for a little while longer?
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Im Scottish and yes it would be nice to have this ext but we dont really need it.
The .co.uk ext does well and if we create .sco then england would create .eng, wales .wal etc
I think we work better represented as one UK instead of seperate countries.
Just my thoughts!
Regards,
Robbie
As an Englishman living in Scotland, I can only agree with Robbie – it’s a bit of a shrug the shoulders question. In fact, it’s probably down to Alex Salmond’s (pro independence) SNP stance of trying to make Scotland appear as different as possible for political reasons.
If/when Scotland becomes independent, then yes, obviously Until then it would just mean that Sottish businesses would have to buy a .sco as well as .co.uk and (usually) a .com – it’s just name dilution.
Just my 2p worth, but if they do it, can we have .scot and not .sco please?