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Separatist Petitions to Create Quebec's Own Top-Level Domain

A Parti Quebecois member of the national assembly is trying to drum up support to create a top-level domain for the Canadian province, Quebec — predominantly a French-speaking population. Daniel Turp has started a petition to convince ICANN pointing out that Catalonia, an autonomous region in Spain, has its own national extension — .cat, while the same goes for Greenland, a self-governing province in Denmark which uses .gl. Quebecers now use the extension .qc.ca, which indicates a website is a Canadian website. 

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