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I'm glad someone else is worried about this. For some reason Catalans are very special and love tlds. For example in BCN one is within the geometric catchment for:

  - .barcelona
  - .cat
  - .es
  - .eu

I don't think any other settlement on earth is so blessed.

For what it's worth, the registrar for .cat (Nominalia) isn't very strict

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The status of Catalonia is an enormously controversial issue. In 2017 the government of Catalonia declared independence from Spain, resulting in the Catalonian government being forcibly deposed by the Spanish government, which is opposed to Catalonian independence regardless of the wishes of the Catalonians.

So it's not that surprising they would want their own, .scot is a similar situation.

Except in 2014 Scotland's referendum was to remain in the UK. Scotland is a country too, so it's really quite different.

Scotland is only a "country" by the UK's totally weird definition of the word. It's not that different from Niedersachsen or Alabama or, indeed, Catalonia in that it has its own parliament etc but it's not independent.

In the UK (and in pro football, somehow), "country" appears to mean "either a member of the UN or a federal state of the UK"

If it is a weird definition, it's a well-recognised one. Take the second sentence of the relevant Wikipedia page:

"A country may be an independent sovereign state or part of a larger state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country

Yes, England's definition of the English word "country" includes Scotland

That's not a weird definition by definition - English is what England defines it to be.

> I don't think any other settlement on earth is so blessed.

AFAIK you can buy them anywhere, but Moscow-related (and other major Russian cities) extensions include:

.RU .SU .MOSCOW .МОСКВА .РУС (Rus) .РФ (Russian Federation)

And with second levels:

MSK.RU MSK.SU

Can you actually still get .su domains?

Absolutely. The Soviet Union may be dormant, but they'll happily give you a domain, presumably it's possible to have a website that's relevant to it after its supposed demise.

It's also in "de facto" use by the CIS[0] successor organisation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_St...

I can think of a locality that is covered by a higher number of geographic gTLDs: Cologne, Germany, has .cologne, .koeln, .nrw, .de, and .eu.

(But, granted, Barcelona actually has .bcn as well.)

> .bcn domain is intended to maintain a relationship of "cooperation and sum of efforts" with the .cat domain

I wanted to learn why this TLD exists but I didn't understand the explanation. What does cooperating with another TLD mean and can I use it for bacon stuff?

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