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Re: [OT] Re: Country codes: msg#00339

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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Country codes

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Doug Ewell wrote:
> Stefan Persson <alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel at yahoo dot se> wrote:
> > And "ko" is used to represent "kr". Are there any other irregular top
> > domain names?
>
> The "eurodns" site that Kevin referred to does show the standard "kr" as
> the code for South Korea, not "ko".

That sort of confusion between country and language codes is not uncommon,
perhaps due to a small number that coincide, e.g., fr, de, es, etc.

The Korean case is also complicated by the kp country code for North
Korea.


Thomas Chan
tc31@xxxxxxxxxxx





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