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q@glauca.space
random discovery: .eu exists as a TLD because the EU passed a law saying it should, without really asking ICANN first
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@q what are they gonna do, pick a fight with the EU?
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@q is it considered a ccTLD? (I guess I could see arguments either way)
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@q I once heard about someone from the IT department of the commission being asked by a certificate authority for the founding documents of the legal entity they were trying to get a certificate for. They replied that the maastricht treaty is available in bookshops.
I don’t know how if that worked.
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FlorianTischner
FlorianTischner@chaos.social@q an additional fun fact: there are two .eu TLDs. The normal with a normal e and a normal u and .ευ with a Greek e and u.
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@q or well.. I suppose not a country and thus not a ccTLD, which makes for an interesting exception for two-letter implying ccTLD
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Ashley Rolfmore (leymoo)
leymoo@hachyderm.io
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@q they ought to know they can't win that one
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@q imagine though if they hadn't given up. the EU would end up setting up their own ICANN...
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@artemist @firefly @q there's a nice episode of Map Men about exactly this :D
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cD4hxKkqR4E
*edit: not specifically about .eu but ccTLDs in general
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gettie (
arc) 
getimiskon
@q
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@getimiskon @FlorianTischner ICANN said that’d look too similar to Estonia
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gettie ( arc)
getimiskon
@FlorianTischner
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@getimiskon @FlorianTischner oh agreed, it’s very America centric and honestly εε doesn’t look much like ee
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Sr. Estegosaurio 🦕
SrEstegosaurio@mstdn.social@getimiskon
American Excepcionalism is brain rot.
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