Re: Re: Those domains are also still free
Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:05:28 -0800
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Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote: >On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 19:07, Walter Vermeir wrote: > >>Jimmy Wales wrote: >> >>>Can you research for me the least expensive places I can buy >>>these? >>> >>I do not know where the are the least expensive. The Wikipedians of the >>wiki's of those countries should know. >> >Your question simply misses me. This is grossly unfair. > >Again my language tamil has no country! >If any India is by far the largest population. >Wait till you touch on the Urdu or Bengali issue :) >Honestly I will be laugjhing at you then. >There are many mnay examples that propabbly could be captured on the >wikis for the next sillymove like this to be pointed at. > >Also again, it must be stressed that this will only entangle people and >confuse some to feel left out. >The argument that .be is there why not me is enough as it is. > You seem to be confusing the fact that country domain codes and language codes are different. Thus as a domain code "be" represents Belgium, but as a language code represents Belorussian. Also Canada's domain is "ca", but as a language it represents Catalan. For Tamil it is important to remember that it is a language of two countries. Ec