Comments on: What will be the Kosovo ccTld?

By: dardanmiftari

dardanmiftari — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:31:22 +0000

I hope that .KS will be Kosovo’s ccTld

By: Alban

Alban — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:55:35 +0000

James,
See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_specialized_agencies_of_the_United_Nations

Kosova is a member of IMF and WB so the conditions have been met for an ISO and domain name. There is even a wait list for OliverDespina.ks

By: James

James — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:49:29 +0000

To Germ:

The fact is that Kosovo does not have a seat at the UN as an official ‘country’ or ‘sovereign state’. Serbia has challenged the one-sided proclamation of independance claim via the ICJ and therefore, until there is a finalised resolution to the dispute, a ccTLD assigment to the territory of Kosovo should not be made.

The UN (particularly the 5 permanent members) will need to make the final decision on Kosovo, no matter how many other countries ‘recognise’ this territory.

Refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1

Criteria for inclusion

Currently 246 countries, territories, or areas of geographical interest are assigned official codes in ISO 3166-1. According to the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency (ISO 3166/MA), the only way to enter a new country name into ISO 3166-1 is to have it registered in one of the following two sources:

United Nations Terminology Bulletin Country Names, or
Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use of the UN Statistics Division.

To be listed in the bulletin Country Names, a country must either be:

- A member country of the United Nations,
- A member of one of its specialized agencies, or
- A party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice.

The list of names in Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use of the UN Statistics Division is based on the bulletin Country Names and other UN sources.

Once a country name or territory name appears in either of these two sources, it will be added to ISO 3166-1 by default.

By: Arianit

Arianit — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:27:34 +0000

@James ,Kosova ,is Kosova ,and , Serbia is Serbia ,they are two different contries ,Kosova has nothing with Serbia ,we are independent.

Regards

Arianit

By: Germ

Germ — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:54:30 +0000

No, .rs is the ccTLD for Serbia.

Maybe you meant to insinuate that Kosovo is part of Serbia but the UN, the US and most of the world’s developed countries would disagree with that view.

According the CIA World Factbook, Kosovo became a Sovereign Republic on Feb. 17, 2008: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kv.html

By: James

James — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:27:08 +0000

Kosovo already has a domain name – .rs

By: Arianit

Arianit — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:03:32 +0000

I’m from Kosova ,and I think it will be .ks ,becouse , we use maybe everwhere this to letters KS ,and I’don’t think we will take another ccTld , anyway , but ,is anybody from you informed ,when we can use kosovo’s ccTld?

By: jetonr

jetonr — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:55:59 +0000

I would say either .ks or .ka ( first and last letters from KosovA)

By: Kosovos future

Kosovos future — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:29:43 +0000

The best solution will be .ks , and dear keith does 17 february 2008 mean something to you kosovo is free now go buy newspaper , clean with that your ass and eat it.

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