.HUB any information about it ?

[RealName]

I found these info : New Dot .hub market soon to open | Domain News

The Hebridean Unified Bureau, (HUB), a small consortium of representational government officials, broke free from Commonwealth constraints today and announced the formation of a new nation state.

Maybee some of you know more ?

Guy

 

[Gerrit]

That sounds like a joke. The Hebrides are a group of windswept sparsely populated islands off the coast of Scotland. They have been under Scottish/British control for a long time without any demand to form a new nation state, which would never work out anyway with a population of so few citizens (granted, some sovereign nations also have a population of a few thousands only) and being economically dependant on Scotland. Not to mention their cultural ties to Scotland being very strong (the Scottish Gaelic is still spoken widely on the islands) that they would very likely not want to lose their ties to Scotland.

Also, if the Hebrides would really want to break away it would be front page news worldwide. And as i said, the Hebrides as a sovereign state would be as likely as Svalbard or St Helena forming a sovereign nation.

Sounds like a total joke to me. I'd put my arm in the fire if this were only remotely true ...

 

[siga]

While I have not had the opportunity to research this further...
I believe the Hebrides under discussion may infact not be the outer/inner hebrides such as Lewis and Harris on the West Coast of Scotland who I would imagine relish there Scottish heritage but the New Hebrides in the south pacific. :New Hebrides - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This as the wiki article suggests is run by a joint government.

 

[RealName]

UN/ ISO actual country code is VU (Vanuatu), located in Pacific, but I can't find other information to confirm if Vanuatu people really wished to change the country name as I found it in the link I gave on my above post.

Guy

 

[amoeba]

The Hebrides are off the coast of Scotland. The New Hebrides are in the South Pacific (now called Vanuatu).

And I'm going to agree that this sounds like a joke. No news results for this "bureau", and Marcaria has nothing about it on their news page.

 

[Gerrit]

The New Hebrides = Vanuatu

Just like Tuvalu in colonial times had a different name (can't be bothered to research it, but by heart I believe it was something like Ellis Islands or something similar)

Vanuatu = .vu



Also, .HUB cannot work for sure because per definition country code extentions have two characters. So even if Vanuatu would change its name to New Hebrides (which I am still quite sure is a joke) the new ccTLD would likely be something like .nh or similar. Three-character extentions are only for generic TLDs or special extentions such as .cat ...

 

[RealName]

Regarding your response, and the fact that effectively no country have 3 letters code, but only 2.
Even on the Vanuatu government website or any Vanuatu web newspaper I found no information regarding this.

I think the author of this new "domainqueen" should wait until first April to give that.

Guy

 

[Gerrit]

Indeed. If you make a joke, be sure it's at least a good one where people are doubting if it's true or not... Any true domainer knows country extentions have two characters, otherwise it'd be .USA or .UAE instead of .US and .AE ...

As for the real Hebrides getting an own domain, that'd be so silly that any random village could ask for an own extention. So hereby, dear ICANN, I would like to propose the new extention for the islands of Socotra. Few people know where they are, but same goes for the Hebrides, and Socotra has more citizens

Seriously, if Scotland itself struggles to get a .sco or .scot extention accepted by ICANN, can you imagine why the Hebrides would even try??