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Is Western Sahara a part of Morocco or is it truly independent? Never really settled in the real world, an old dispute now has repercussions on the Internet as two governments fight for one of the last unassigned country codes.
Undelegated extensions — ones that haven't been assigned to anyone yet — are like 2 character .COMs: extremely rare. Look up the authoritative list of country code domains, IANA's database, and you won't find many suffixes that are unassigned. Yet a click on .EH, the country code Top Level Domain for Western Sahara, shows an empty entry.
Read full story: DomainesInfo
Related topics: DNS, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains, Whois
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.eh should be re-delegated to Canada anyway, eh?
"suffix" and "extension" show a serious lack of clue on the part of this 'circleID reporter'.
Joe Provo said:
This is not a report by CircleID, it's a news brief based on what and how news has been reported in the media — in this case a French publication, DomainesInfo — as indicated at the end of the brief. Nevertheless, your input is much appreciated and we will see to it that we further enhance our wording of such news briefings.