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by kijin 5141 days ago
ICANN is already accepting applications for whatever TLD you want to create. You don't have to be a country to get one. So what's the point of this "petition"?

I'm guessing that the goal is somehow to bypass the hefty fees that ICANN charges on anyone who applies for a new TLD. If so, why not just say that that's the objective, and skip the nonsense about JavaScript being a nation with billions of lines of virtual GDP?

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"Two-character ASCII strings are not permitted, to avoid conflicting with current and future country codes based on the ISO 3166-1 standard."

See https://github.com/ozten/TLD.js/issues/8

Ah, I see. I wish they made this clear in the landing page.