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		toast0 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gone (Almost) Phishin' Before exhaustion, you're likely to have new countries where they have to have suboptimal two letter codes, because a dissolved country is squating on it.

razakel 17 days ago [–]

An interesting one is .uk, because the UK's country code is actually GB (the ccTLD is delegated, but unused).

And that's before we get into the really weird not-a-proper-country ones like .im or .pn.

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