Re: Regional iTLD Question

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Administracio del Sistema writes:
> So, we want to ask for a iTLD for Catalonia. Because of
> the different language, culture, and way of living.
> Which is the best way to do it ????
> 
> 1) Ask for ISO-3166 update to include .ct as a TLD
> for catalonia. (We have a website with more than
> one thousand supporters --> http://www.domini-ct.org )
> Our local government has approved a resolution to ask
> spanish government to act in consequence.

If you can get an ISO-3166 code assigned, RFC 1591 says you can then
get a two letter TLD based on it. The IANA makes no judgements on who
is entitled to such domain names -- it just hands out anything that is
an ISO-3166 two letter code (plus the reserved postcodes).

> 2) Ask for a new iTLD, as .cat (Catalonia) which is
> a half sollution for us because we are a recognized
> nation without own state.
> 
> Which is the appropiate way to go ???

The first you can certainly do even right now, though I don't know how
successful you will be -- that ends up in the hands of the ISO, and I
have no idea what their assignment criteria are.

The second depends on how the IAHC decides to allocate new top level
domains, so you would have to wait a month or two to find out what
ends up happening there.

Perry
Speaking for myself, and not for the IAHC.