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Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> Fri, 30 June 2017 17:21 UTC

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On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Daniel Karrenberg <dfk@ripe.net> wrote:
> john,
>
> ...
>
> Conversely it would be problematic now to have three letter ASCII ccTLDs
> unless there is a clear agreement with ISO that they will never allocate
> a three letter code that already exists as a gTLD. Afaik there are no
> clashes right now, but past results are not a guarantee for the future.

COM is the three letter code for the Comoros Islands. I believe it is
also used by a few entities as their TLD :-)

> It is never a good idea to have two 'authorities' over one part of a
> name space.
>
> dfk

Thanks,
Donald