Re: ISO 2-letter codes for concultures

On 12 Feb 02, at 23:16, Danny Wier wrote:

> A lot of web addresses end in .to (including a lot of porn sites),
> which is *supposed* to be Tonga (which is a country where almost
> everybody is evangelical Christian), so sometimes a country code
> doesn't matter.
Yup. Other popular ccTLD (country code top-level domains) which are
used by people from all over are .cc (Cocos/Keeling Islands), .cx
(Christmas Island -- both of those belong to Australia and are roughly
SSW of Indonesia), .nu (Niue), and to a lesser extent .tv (Tuvalu), .fm
(Federated (States of?) Micronesia), and .am (Armenia) for the
broadcasting industry.

http://www.norid.no/domreg.html is a good list of what domains there
are (and contains links to the registering agency, if known, in case
you want to go right ahead and register your Tajikistan domain ;)

> So what about your'n?
I suppose:

* Verduria - .vd, since .ve is already Venezuela
* Kebri - .kb (.ke is Kenya)
* Barakhún - .bk (.ba is Bosnia and Herzegovina; .br is Brazil)
* Ismahi - .ii (.is is Iceland, .im is Isle of Man)
* Flora - .fl
* Érenat - .en (.er is Eritreat)

See http://www.zompist.com/drill3.htm for a map of the area of most
interest for me (and whose languages are most fully described) on Mark
Rosenfelder's world Almea.

Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>