.VI = Virgin Islands ?

On Saturday, May 02, 1998 9:30 PM, William X. Walsh[SMTP:william at TJNS.TJ] wrote:
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@
@The British Virgin Islands have their OWN 2 letter code, separate and
@unique from the US Virgin Islands code.
@

It makes no sense to carve up country code TLDs
along hard and fast political boundaries. Those boundaries
can change and people will want to continue to use their
domain names. Stability of domain names is one of the
arguments the ITU/ISOC/IAHC/POC/PAB/CORE use to
justify their plan. How can they do that when the IANA
(Jon Postel) plan for country codes does not support that ?

Also, what is the purpose of having country codes if people
ignore the boundaries ?

@@@ http://www.zbvi.vi

"ZBVI is the principal commercial and only "AM" radio station in the British Virgin Islands."

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Again...just so people are clear...I suggest that a TLD
like .VI should cover the "region" known as the Virgin
Islands and I also suggest that the stakeholders be
the ones that determine the future of the TLD, not the
IANA (Jon Poste). The stakeholders are the <SLD>.VI
owners, in my opinion.
-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI

http://vi.caribnic.net




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