New Top Level Domain - AC = Ascension Island

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

It's not that often that brand new top level domains
(and, for that matter, ISO3166 codes) turn-up on the DNS.

Ascension Island is one of those few geographical entities
that didn't have an ISO3166 code. Well, it appeared just
before Christmas:

salsa:~> whois ac24-dom
[rs.internic.net]
Ascension Island top-level domain (AC24-DOM)
IO Top Level Domain Registry
Cable and Wireless (Ascension Island)
Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean
AC

Domain Name: AC

Administrative Contact:
Internet Manager (IM92-ORG) admini...@NIC.AC
+247 6464 (fax)

[etc. etc.]

Note that it is rather strange that the same registry also
serves IO, the British Indian Ocean Territory - a whole continent,
Africa, separates those two remote locations on the planet.

Thanks to Tibor Gruber for having pointed this out to me.

Cheers,
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