[OSM-talk] ANNOUNCE: talk-gb

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 06:35:34PM +0200, raphael Jacquot wrote:
> Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> > The letters 'gb' are in fact the ISO country code for 'United Kingdom'
> > (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) weirdly enough, not for 'Great
> > Britain'
> > http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists
> > /list-en1.html#sz
> 
> then why the hell do the gb use .uk as their tld ??

Wikipedia[0] tells all.

Dominic.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.uk

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