Scotland’s New TLD .scot Goes Live

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Scotland’s New TLD .scot Goes Live

By CircleID Reporter
July 15, 2014, 7:11 pm PDT Views: 7,195 Comments: 1

The new TLD for Scotland, .scot, has been launched. About 50 sites run by “launch pioneers” are expected to go live on Tuesday. Among those who have signed up for a new domain are the Scottish government, referendum campaigners Yes Scotland and Better Together, WWF Scotland, NHS Scotland and Scouts Scotland. The .scot domain is one of a number of new top-level domains going live this year including .wales, .london, .berlin and .NYC.

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It'll be interesting to see, if the Doug Mehus – Jul 17, 2014 12:02 AM

It’ll be interesting to see, if the Scottish referendum results in a substantial “yes” vote and the UK government allows Scotland to form an independent country, how this will play out vis a vis the Scottish independence supporters & enthusiasts promoting “.scot” while their country would indeed be eligible for a two-letter ccTLD through a separate IANA process. :)

Cheers,
Doug

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