Re: [OT] Re: Country codes

From: Thomas Chan (tc31@cornell.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 21:29:38 EDT

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    On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Doug Ewell wrote:
    > Stefan Persson <alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel at yahoo dot se> wrote:
    > > And "ko" is used to represent "kr". Are there any other irregular top
    > > domain names?
    >
    > The "eurodns" site that Kevin referred to does show the standard "kr" as
    > the code for South Korea, not "ko".

    That sort of confusion between country and language codes is not uncommon,
    perhaps due to a small number that coincide, e.g., fr, de, es, etc.

    The Korean case is also complicated by the kp country code for North
    Korea.

    Thomas Chan
    tc31@cornell.edu



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