(What If?) ccTLD Delegation Question

Mon Oct 3 23:06:48 UTC 2005

Joe Johnson wrote:
> Call it Monday Boredom, if you will, but a funny DNS question just
> popped into my head: if I were to, say, win the lotto and buy my own
> Island (which, of course, would technically be its own country),

That's terribly hard to do:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand>

> would I be able to receive a ccTLD for said island nation?  

Since Sealand doesn't have a ccTLD yet:

<http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm>

I would expect the process to take quite a while (i.e. decades).

jc