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by Dosenpfand 3389 days ago
Yes it's Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha top level domain. Interesting fact: If it's a two-letter top-level domain it belongs to a country. Generic top-level domains have 3 or more characters.
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You've contradicted yourself, .AC is an overseas British possession, not its own country. There are a number of geographic locations that have two letter country codes (.io, etc) which are not members of the UN and are possessions of some other, much more powerful nation, usually as a result of the last 400 years of colonial activity.
I'm aware! It's why JavaScript will never have a .js top-level domain.
Challenge: Establish a recognized country with a name chosen such that it gets assigned the .js TLD.
I don't see .cpp, .java, or .sql top-level domains.
To be pedantically correct, ".eu" doesn't belong to a country.
Nor does .uk — the UK's country code is GB.
.uk does belong to the uk though.
It's used for the UK, but it's not assigned to the UK. Like EU, it is a specially-reserved country code.