Ask Slashdot:International DNS Wackiness
Dave Kusters
writes in with our first non linux-centric question in a bit.
He asks "Top level country domains are assigned by the ISO 3166 Maintainance
Agency. When a country's name changes, this organization changes the
country's top level domain. For example, when Zaire changed to the
Democratic Republic of Congo, the top level domain changed from za to cd.
My question is, what happens when a large portion of the world does not
recognize the new government. For example, when China became the People's
Republic of China, the United States and several other countries refused
to recognize the PRC. If another non-recognition situation arises, how
will the ISO 3166 Maintainance Agency resolve the top level domain?
In a related question, when a top level country domain changes, how long
does the old domain remain in tact? za was switched over to cd just over
a year ago and I can't seem to find any DNS entry in the za domain."
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