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'''B''' - Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, ".uk" is Northern Ireland's only country code top-level domain. ".ie" is the country code top-level domain of the republic of Ireland. It is misleading, inaccurate and offensive to include ".ie" which implies Northern Ireland is part of the Republic of Ireland. The key is in the name " country code top-level domain", the UK is a country, ROI is a country, under some definitions NI is a country.. but the island of Ireland is NOT a country and it does not have a " country code top-level domain". Reference to the Belfast agreement is completely irrelevant, the belfast agreement allowed people in NI to be Irish citizens, it did not cede Northern Ireland to the Irish republic, quite the opposite.. the agreement recognised that Northern Ireland was entirely part of the United Kingdom until such a time as the people vote to change that relationship. The body that assigns internet codes bases domains on ISO 3166-1 which clearly applies to sovereign states like the Republic of Ireland / United Kingdom. NOT to an island. No one arguing for ".ie" to remain has provided ANY evidence that ".ie" was assigned to the island, merely that the body responsible for the Irish domain allows people with a connection to NI to get a domain (but they do not have to be in Northern Ireland, they could be anywhere in the world), and people in NI can use many domain names. This is strictly about is ".ie" Northern Ireland's country domain... it is clearly not so its inclusion is wrong. [[User:BritishWatcher|BritishWatcher]] ([[User talk:BritishWatcher|talk]]) 15:20, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
'''NOTE'''
- IANA (the authority responsible for assigning domains) "''2) Country Codes - The IANA is not in the business of deciding what is and what is not a country. The selection of the ISO 3166 list as a basis for country code top-level domain names was made with the knowledge that ISO has a procedure for determining which entities should be and should not be on that list.''"
- See the [[ISO_3166-1]] for what countries are on the list and look at the map. It quite clearly shows IE is the Republic of Ireland, not the whole of the island. [[User:BritishWatcher|BritishWatcher]] ([[User talk:BritishWatcher|talk]]) 15:34, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
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